Y Combinator

06/13/2024

If you're interested in applying for the YC S24 batch, the deadline for last-minute applications is tonight!

Apply by end of day, and we’ll get back to you by June 20.

If you were interested in applying for S24 but thought it was too late, it’s not. If you apply by June 13, we’ll still have time to look at your application.

03/27/2024

YC is coming to Boston!

Join us for Startup School East on April 20, and a day of YC interviews on April 21.

Hear how some of the most successful people in Silicon Valley got started, the mistakes they made along the way, and what they wish they’d known at 22.

All of YC’s group partners are flying in for this one — so if you’ve been looking for an opportunity to meet them, this is it.

On April 20, we’re hosting Startup School East, a one-day event where you’ll hear stories and advice from founders and YC partners. Hear how some of the most successful people in Silicon Valley g...

03/21/2024

Congratulations Steve, Alexis, and the entire Reddit (YC S05) team on the IPO!

"Reddit the site (and now app) is such a fundamentally useful thing that it's almost unkillable."

To celebrate Reddit's IPO, Paul Graham shares what was special about the Reddits — and how they were one of the reasons YC was started:

"I met the Reddits before we even started Y Combinator. In fact they were one of the reasons we started it."

02/28/2024

VetRec (YC S23) is helping veterinarians automate the process of note-taking in a matter of seconds by generating SOAP-style notes with AI immediately after each visit. No need to use any awkward dictation software or manually input notes anymore.

Veterinarians are swamped with filling out SOAP notes. Either they spend countless hours after the day writing them or spend part of the consultation looking at a screen filling out details and taking in the history of the pet. Both of these lead to burnout and hundreds of hours lost.

Founders David and Kevin come from Costa Rica and Venezuela respectively, and have a deep passion for technology. They met 10 years ago at Penn State and have built projects together since. Both of them spent 6+ years in Microsoft building large-scale Data & AI platforms. After talking with veterinarian family and friends, they decided to solve this problem.

After launching just two months ago, 100+ veterinarians are using VetRec and saving hundreds of hours on note-taking processes.

Learn more at https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KVW-vetrec-ai-scribe-for-veterinarians.

02/28/2024

Senso (YC W24) is an AI-powered knowledge base for customer support teams. Their initial focus is on highly regulated industries where inaccurate information leads to regulatory fines, starting with Credit Unions.

02/28/2024

"San Francisco and the Bay Area was already the number one place in the world where the best software engineers, the best PMs, the best designers, the best executives would gravitate. I want there to be startup hubs everywhere else but there will always be the number one city, and it's San Francisco."

YC President and CEO Garry Tan on "How San Francisco's Nerdiest Neighborhood Could Save It" with Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-02-28/how-sf-s-nerdiest-neighborhood-cerebral-valley-could-save-it

02/14/2024

The world is full of founders with expertise that could be tapped into something new and great. Our hope is that our Request for Startups (RFS) inspires some of those people to do so — or if they’re already building, to apply to YC.

The RFS is a YC tradition — you can find examples going back as far as 2009. Each one offers up ideas we’d want to see made real, in spaces that we believe will be important in the coming decades.

If you aren't sure what idea is best to work on, these RFSs should provide a useful jumping-off point to begin your ideation process: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/ycs-latest-request-for-startups.

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Applications for the YC Summer 2024 batch are now open and the early deadline to apply is February 20. Apply at ycombinator.com/apply.

01/30/2024

There aren’t a ton of people in the world who can say they founded a billion dollar company. There are far fewer who can say they did it twice. YC Group Partner Tom Blomfield is one of them.

This is his Backstory: https://youtu.be/QKPgBAnbc10

01/29/2024

CodeAnt AI - YC W24 helps organizations reduce tech debt by detecting and auto-fixing bad code across the entire codebase.

If bad code is slowing down your development velocity, or your developers are spending more time fixing code than shipping features — CodeAnt AI can help.

It uses AI and rule-based engines to detect and auto-fix issues, including anti-patterns, dead and duplicate code, complex functions, security vulnerabilities, and more. Plus, it documents your entire codebase.

Learn more: https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KGd-codeant-ai-ai-to-detect-auto-fix-bad-code

Co-founders Amartya Jha and Chinmay Bharti have written applications and scaled them to handle billions of requests daily. They experienced firsthand how 'bad' code can slow development and increase organizational costs. So they're building exactly what they needed, with CodeAnt AI.

Try out CodeAnt AI Pro today and get a 7-day free trial: https://github.com/marketplace/codeant-ai

01/22/2024

Toma Voice (YC W24) offers voice AI agents that let businesses automate phone calls and perform tasks over the phone, just like a highly trained human agent would.

For businesses, phone call operations are labor-intensive, expensive, inconsistent in quality, and hard to scale. As a result, customers have to put up with long wait times, transfers to agents with no context, and robotic call flows.

Toma provides the most delightful call experience for customers and brings efficiency to business operations, by providing:

🗣️ A natural-sounding voice experience over the phone
🪄 A simple way to design call flows and manage AI agents
🧩 Easy integration into your existing software to pull information and perform tasks on/off call

Learn more at https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KDB-toma-automates-your-phone-calls-with-ai.

The founders, Monik Pamecha, Anthony Krivonos, and Junyu Huang, believe that voice is the best way for consumers to interact with AI in the future. Drawing from their extensive experience building large-scale customer messaging software, LLM applications, and conversational AI working at Scale, Uber, Lyft, and Braze, they're confident they can make the experience 10x better.

Check out Toma's website here: https://toma.so
Book a demo: https://www.toma.so/contact

Congrats Monik, Anthony, and Junyu on the launch — and welcome to YC!

01/11/2024

Senso (YC W24) has built an AI-powered Knowledge Base designed for traditional industries like financial services, starting with Credit Unions.

https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K8h-senso-ai-powered-knowledge-base-designed-for-credit-unions

Their platform provides a flexible way to centralize enterprise knowledge, such as documents and conversational data, that LLMs use to improve the way support and marketing teams interact with customers.

In industries like financial services, knowledge feels stuck, and existing knowledge bases aren’t cutting it. The time it takes for support and marketing teams to access information negatively impacts retention, loyalty, and sentiment.

Consider the following scenarios:
1) You contact your financial institution only to be put on hold for up to 10 minutes and then transferred to another department.
2) You get offers which are not at all relevant to your life circumstances.

This type of experience has become the norm in industries like financial services.

Over the past decade, the founders of Senso, Thomas Nelson and Saroop Bharwani, have been solving this problem for banks, credit unions, and other traditional enterprises that struggle to consolidate their data and surface relevant insights to the right people, at the right time.

Congrats to the Senso team on their launch!

12/20/2023

Carma (YC W24) makes top local auto repair shops bid for your car service, saving you upwards of 50% on any car repair.

$37 billion is how much U.S. car owners lose on overpriced or unnecessary car repairs every year, and there’s not much the average car owner can do – most Americans rely on 1 car to commute and don’t have time to price shop for quotes. 80% of car owners don’t know fair prices for auto repair or how a car even works.

Founded by Muhammad Alasgarli and Brandt Lawson, Carma’s mission is to address and unlock the enormous and this untapped 80% of the market by enabling them to purchase vehicle services easily and safely. On the flip side, they strive to empower the overwhelming 90% majority of independent mom-and-pop shops with the competitive edge they need to win the business that they deserve in their local areas.

Carma users simply request any service they need through the Carma app. It then sends the requests to its highly rated and vetted local service center partners, who respond through the app with real-time offers. Car owners can easily compare multiple same-day service offers in 60 seconds or less. Carma handles the transaction with no markups and zero fees – you pay the same price as in the physical repair shop or better.

Learn more at https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JvQ-carma-get-top-auto-repairshops-to-bid-for-your-same-day-service.

Congrats on the launch, Carma — and welcome to YC!