It turns out "Do things that don't scale" works even when selling software to the Department of Defense. Tune in to hear how Grant Demaree from Onebrief (YC S21) scrapped his way to early user feedback and first paying customers for a company valued at $650m today. There's

Incredible energy at the world's biggest MCP hackathon at the Y Combinator office today!!Organized by Gumloop Greptile Mintlify Anthropic and Supabase

If you're a Harvard CS or related field student that was affected by the international students ban, please DM me if I can help. Happy to be a resource to connect you to companies that may be willing to hire you and sponsor a visa (regardless of degree status)

Big day over at Greptile HQ today. If your team is curious about automating PR review and catching bugs using AI, go check them out!

“I’ll invest if you find a lead” is the single lamest thing an investor can say.

Congratulations to Patrick Finlay and Mark Hughes on announcing a great round for Solidroad . During YC they came; they saw; they conquered and haven't slowed a step yet. Their conviction that the future will involve humans and agents working in concert jumped out to us from day

Every job has “Hell yeah!” moments. At YC many of mine have been hearing Dalton give founders unintuitive, surprising advice that answers their questions, points them at a more ambitious path AND amps them up to barrel down that path. Him and Paul Buchheit teaming up to help startups

Getting set up for AI Startup School - starts tomorrow.

Who’s at AI Startup School today? This is great advice for you. Find a small group of ambitious people you want to keep in touch with, and meet up every 2 weeks to set goals and keep each other accountable. You’ll be amazed how much faster you’ll move.

Kudos to Grant Demaree on assembling more allies and resources to fix the way the U.S. military makes decisions. Congrats also to Battery Ventures on joining the effort!

Congratulations to the team at Daft! The future is multimodal. Engineering teams need something new to make sure their data doesn't just play nicely together, but really performs. Well-said!

I'm hosting a Y Combinator event for early-stage founders at Monzo 🏦 HQ in London on July 15th. You can apply for a ticket here: events.ycombinator.com/OCU91g6z4

Kulveer is an amazing human being and a great investor in YC startups, and I am so excited to see what he is doing with Phosphor Capital!

Still buzzing from the Y Combinator event we hosted in one of Paris’ most iconic venues. So many future founders in the room! Huge thanks to Solomon Hykes, Paul Copplestone - e/postgres, and Tom Blomfield for sharing their stories, and to Unaite for helping make it all happen! 📍La Sorbonne

AI Development Needs a Standard. We’ve raised a $20m Series A to build it. Today, I’m thrilled to share that we’ve raised $20M to bring rigor, speed, and reliability to AI development. The round was led by Leaders Fund, with participation from Y Combinator, Socii Capital,

This Y Combinator W24 Group Office hours group was pretty stacked in hindsight: Legora, ModelML, Gumloop, Circleback, AndyAI, Penciled, Latern, and Marr Labs.

It's an open secret in the industry that the AI customer service tools with famous founders and hundreds of millions in funding are vaporware. Expect to see a bunch of companies announce they're using AI CS from actual startups over the next few weeks.

Startups have to rediscover zero bug bounce Every few sprints get to zero P2 bugs before you start new feature work. Otherwise your product will be a low quality mess forever. One part of great craft is getting to zero known bugs regularly.