Venture capital is filled with investors who claim they’ve got inside access to the next big thing. Meanwhile, Gabriel Jarrosson, a French engineer-turned-YouTuber-turned-investor, has built his VC firm around a single filter: if it isn’t a Y Combinator company, he won’t invest in it. That discipline pushed Jarrosson from filming scrappy venture explainers in Paris […]
Y Combinator launches “Early Decision” for students who want to graduate first, build later
For decades, Silicon Valley has valorized the college dropout. Founders like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg left school early to build companies and became billionaires. That ethos was later institutionalized through initiatives like the Thiel Fellowship, which famously pays promising students $ 100,000 to leave college and start companies. For many years, the […]
Y Combinator says Apple’s App Store has hindered startup growth
Y Combinator has filed an amicus brief in the ongoing legal battle between Apple and Epic Games, arguing that the App Store has stifled startup innovation. We’ve reached out to legal reps for YC and Apple for comment. The brief comes during the years-long legal dispute. Epic Games first filed an antitrust lawsuit against the […]
Y Combinator alum SRE.ai raises $7.2M for DevOps AI agents
“It wasn’t one big lightbulb; it was death by a thousand cuts,” Edward Aryee said when asked what led him and his co-founder, Raj Kadiyala, to launch SRE.ai. The company is offering natural language AI agents that can perform complex enterprise DevOps workflows like continuous integration and testing. “Instead of stitching together different low-code tools […]
Nigerian profitable food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator
Chowdeck, a Lagos-based food delivery startup that has stayed profitable in a notoriously tough and low-margin market, has raised $ 9 million in Series A funding to launch a quick commerce strategy and expand into more cities in Nigeria and Ghana. The equity round was led by Novastar Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, AAIC […]