Astor Raises $5M Seed Led by Monashees to Build an AI Investment Advisor for Everyone

Astor, an AI-native investment advisory platform registered with the SEC, today announced a $5 million seed round led by ...

10x Science Raises $4.8M Seed to Build AI That Understands Proteins at the Molecular Level

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Calif., April 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- 10x Science, which builds frontier AI for molecular-level protein characterization across the life sciences, today announced the closing ...
AOL

Famed startup incubator Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins

In the latest sign of digital currencies going mainstream, Silicon Valley’s most prominent startup incubator will allow its spring cohort of entrepreneurs to receive their funding in stablecoins. Y ...
Business Insider

Meet the 19 Y Combinator group partners and visiting advisors coaching the famed incubator's Winter 2023 startup class

Y Combinator assigns a group partner or visiting group partner to founders in its cohorts. YC group partners are expert advisors from many fields like biotech, fintech, and data analytics. Here are 19 ...

Big Tech Antitrust Bill Stalls in Committee: California Brief

Legislation targeting business practices of major tech companies stalled in the California capitol as lawmakers raised concerns about upending widely used services like Apple’s app store and Google ...
Analytics Insight

Vecros Turns Shark Tank Crash Into Big Comeback, Selected Among 2,000 of 25,000 Startups at Y Combinator

Drone startup Vecros has made a strong comeback after a tough moment on national television. The company has now joined the Y ...
Inc

Here’s What Y Combinator Wants From Startups This Year

Y Combinator is projecting its version of the Bat Signal into the sky for startup founders. The San Francisco-based accelerator released its Request for Startups (RFS) list on Wednesday, which covers ...
Fast Company

Y Combinator was a deeply in-person experience—until the pandemic hit

For years, the accelerator insisted that founders come to the Bay Area to participate in its program. Then it was forced to go remote—and learned to like it. It was a ritual that Y Combinator (YC) had ...
Fast Company

Y Combinator’s CEO says he ships 37,000 lines of AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood

We love a good ol’ social media roast, and Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan found himself on the business end of a doozie Wednesday. Absolutely insane week for agentic ...
TechCrunch

Y Combinator-backed fintech Pebble uses stablecoins to offer 5% yield on cash

As equities continue to trade down from recent peaks, investors are searching for higher returns. Some have turned to the crypto-based decentralized finance (DeFi) realm, where yields from lending and ...
TechCrunch

Why does a16z need its own Y Combinator?

For over a year, Andreessen Horowitz has quietly piloted its own take on an accelerator for early-stage entrepreneurs, and today, the firm announced the program’s official debut. In exchange for an ...