YC Y Combinator Company · mentioned 182 times
Silicon Valley startup accelerator founded in 2005 that runs twice-yearly batches funding early-stage companies and founders, based in Mountain View, California.
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26 GT Garry Tan founder in YC batch 4 sources Investor and president of Y Combinator, the startup accelerator, and co-founder of venture firm Initialized Capital; earlier an early Palantir employee and co-founder of Posterous. JF Jared Friedman founder in YC batch 2 sources Managing Partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of Scribd, known for work in startup investing and company building. PG Paul Graham founder 4 sources Programmer, essayist and co-founder of the startup accelerator Y Combinator, known for his widely read essays on startups. HT Harj Taggar early employee, started working at YC in 2010 2 sources Managing Partner at Y Combinator and former founder and CEO of Triplebyte, a technical recruiting company; earlier co-founded Auctomatic. SS Samil Singh participant 2 sources Student from Hamilton, New Zealand who attended Hamilton Boys' High School and Harvard, and was part of a Y Combinator batch. SA Sam Altman CEO 5 sources Chief executive of OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company, and former president of Y Combinator; technology investor and co-founder of OpenAI. JA Jack Altman founder in YC batch 1 source Venture capital partner at Benchmark and founder of Lattice, who also sits on the boards of Legora and Oura. IG Isaiah Granet founder in a Y Combinator batch 2 sources Co-founder and CEO of Bland AI, a voice AI company whose agents handle enterprise phone calls. LH Luke Harries founder 2 sources Head of Growth at ElevenLabs, an AI voice company, with earlier roles at PostHog and Microsoft, and an angel investor. BC Brian Chesky board member 2 sources Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, the online lodging and travel marketplace. JC John Coogan participant 4 sources Media personality and co-host of the live tech talk show TBPN, also a Y Combinator participant. MS Michael Seibel early Y Combinator person 3 sources Partner at Y Combinator and startup founder and investor, known for advising early-stage founders; previously involved with Justin.tv. QY Qasar Younis COO 3 sources Co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition, an AI software company for autonomous machines, and former COO of Y Combinator. DC Dalton Caldwell Managing Director 2 sources Managing Director at Y Combinator, the startup accelerator, and former partner there; known for the startup and product-building work he has discussed publicly. GA Gustaf Alstromer YC Partner 2 sources Partner at Y Combinator, the startup accelerator. AH Aaron Harris partner 1 source Former partner at Y Combinator who runs a fundraising service for startups. CS Chris Slowe member of YC's first-ever batch 1 source Founding engineer and former CTO of Reddit, who later worked as chief scientist at Hipmunk and is an angel investor and advisor. DG Daniel Gross group partner 1 source Investor and former Y Combinator group partner focused on AI investing, formerly at Apple. EG Eric Glyman went through Y Combinator in 2015 with Paribus 1 source Co-founder and CEO of Ramp, a corporate payments and expense management company. JL Jacob Lauritzen YC founder, 2023 batch 1 source Chief technology officer of Legora, a Swedish legal AI company; co-founder of a Y Combinator 2023 batch startup. JL Jessica Livingston partner 1 source Co-founder of Y Combinator and author, known for the book Founders at Work. KA Karim Atiyeh went through Y Combinator in 2015 with Paribus 1 source Cofounder and CTO of Ramp, the corporate card and spend management company, and previously cofounder of Paribus. KN Kaz Nejatian member of YC batch 1 source Chief executive of Opendoor, the real estate company, who previously worked at Shopify. PC Parker Conrad founder in YC batch 1 source Founder and CEO of Rippling, the HR and workforce software company, and founder of Zenefits. PB Paul Bookheit former member 1 source Software engineer and entrepreneur known for creating Gmail and for work at Google and Y Combinator. PB Paul Buchheit partner 1 source Software engineer who created Gmail at Google and later became a partner at Y Combinator. 5 L Legora invested in 1 source Swedish legal AI company based in Stockholm that builds software for law firms and in-house legal teams. C Coinbase invested in 1 source US cryptocurrency exchange and digital asset platform, co-founded and led by Brian Armstrong, and the company behind the Base blockchain. C Cruise invested in 1 source Autonomous vehicle company, an American self-driving technology developer that was acquired by General Motors. SA Scale AI invested in 1 source AI data company providing data labeling, training data and model evaluation services for training artificial intelligence models, including for frontier AI labs. S Scribd invested in 1 source Online document-sharing and digital reading platform company. 1 B Bookface made 1 source Internal social network platform built by Y Combinator for its founders and alumni. Where they went next People who worked at Y Combinator and went on to found or run a company.
