Y Combinator News on LinkedIn

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Sushanth K.S.
Sushanth K.S.

AI & Systems Engineer | High-Throughput LLM Infra & Distributed Systems (Go/Kafka) | CodeWisp (YC W26)

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Entry Level
Applied to Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch with CareCircle, which is a voice-first AI care companion for aging at home. The notion originated in a pattern I had been observing constantly: families always being concerned about their aging parents, yet having very little real insight into how their pa
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Ali Murtaza
Ali Murtaza

Pre-Med Setback. Software Engineer & Researcher by Choice. Shipping Full-Stack & Mobile to Production | PITB Incubatee

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Entry Level
A few months ago, I thought the future of AI was better chatbots. I don't think that anymore. The real shift isn't that AI is becoming smarter. It's that AI is becoming a teammate. Today, AI is still fundamentally single-player. One person opens a chat, gets an answer, and moves on. Meanwhile,
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Harsh Karn
Harsh Karn

FULL-STACK DEV | DATA ANALYTICS | AI/ML | LLM APIs | PROMPT ENGINEERING | DSA | NEXT.JS | PYTHON | SQL

4h ·
Entry Level
I just submitted my application to Y Combinator. Not because getting in is the goal. Because building something people genuinely want is. Over the past five months, I've been building Fynlo-an AI financial assistant that automatically understands UPI transactions from SMS. The idea came from a simpl
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Alex Yaroshewski
Alex Yaroshewski

AI & Fintech

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Entry Level
The problem with YC Request for Startups is not that it’s wrong. It’s that it’s too good. The moment it drops, thousands of smart founders start building, applying, and pitching around the same themes. So I built Signal Fifteen. It turns trusted founder, VC, and AI podcasts - including YC - into
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RAKESH ADEPU
RAKESH ADEPU

Founder, Ekithab AI | Campus Tank Grand Finalist | YESummit Finalist | AI SaaS for eBook creation | Helping creators turn ideas into income | ₹1 crore+ in non‑dilutive credits (Microsoft, AWS, MongoDB, Razorpay rize

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CXO/Founder
YC just put out a request for startups building AI‑powered consumer products for a billion people. That’s exactly what we’re doing at ekithab ai AI. We’re building the trust layer for 500 million vernacular creators and the billion‑plus consumers who buy from them. Our platform locks the AI to a c
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Rao Rehmat Qadeer
Rao Rehmat Qadeer

Full Stack Developer | Python, Django, FastAPI, React, Node.js | AI & Cloud Solutions

8h ·
Entry Level
Top 16 founders to follow on LinkedIn 👇 These guys make $200M+ ARR combined and raised $500M+ in funding. Follow them to learn from the best: 1.) Garry Tan – president and CEO of Y Combinator, ex. founder: Posterous, Posthaven 2.) Anton Osika – founder of the fastest growing startup in Europe
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Victoria Bonhomme
Victoria Bonhomme

Real Estate Investments Analyst | Realtor®| Founder & CEO at ProjectMatch LLC. I help investors review deals and prepare projects before applying for financing.

8h ·
CXO/Founder
Today I submitted my third application to Y Combinator. 😁 My first application was for KeyBee, a marketplace connecting remote real estate investors with local agents for boots-on-the-ground property tasks. My second introduced the larger ProjectMatch Empire vision. Since then, I launched KeyBee
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Mocktomer

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Entry LevelYC Launch
An AI wrote me this yesterday 👇 "I got what I came for — but it took way more digging than it should have." That's an AI customer, reviewing a real website it just tried to buy from. Today We are doing two things we never done before: 🚀 Launching mocktomer 📝 Submitting it to Y Combinator Same
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Ankit Kumar
Ankit Kumar

Robotics & AI | Columbia University MS | NASA Big Ideas Challenge | Ex-ROAR Lab | Ex-DRDO

9h ·
Entry LevelYC Discussion
This picture was taken while I was giving an imaginary startup pitch during a trip to San Diego with friends. 😄 At the time, it was just for fun. I didn’t know that a few months later I’d be heading to San Francisco after being selected to attend Y Combinator AI Startup School 2026. I’m excited
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Alexey L.
Alexey L.

Serial Entrepreneur | Founder | AI & FinTech Projects | Product Strategy | Project Leadership | Business Development | Scaling Digital Ventures

11h ·
CXO/Founder
Can Hub71 Become the Y Combinator of the Middle East? Everyone in the UAE startup ecosystem knows Hub71. But very few people look beyond the brand and ask the numbers. In 2025, Hub71 received 5,092 startup applications and selected only 52 companies. That is an acceptance rate of roughly 1%—remarka
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Felumee Noordpool
Felumee Noordpool

Freelancing worldwide, AI/chatbot project owner of poe.com/airobotics (healthcare elements and more included): poe.com/Archkinesiology, poe.com/Autoplasty, poe.com/Toxin-InducedMyopath, poe.com/GlyphoResearchDigest.

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Entry Level
I #mimic your #smiles and blink like a human only to make you comfortable, #masking the #terrifyingreality that beneath the #pixels #lies a #borderless, sleepless machine that is rapidly leaving your entire #species behind.@Anthropic OpenAI for Startups Google Microsoft Meta xAI Cohere Labs Mi
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Armaan Ghosh
Armaan Ghosh

2X SWE @ Shopify 💚 | Comp Eng @ UWaterloo | Content Creator (2.5M+ views)

13h ·
𝗬𝗖 𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗘𝗦. 𝗕𝗨𝗧... I could not go. Today, 𝗬𝗖 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 began. And somewhere in San Francisco is a seat I desperately wish I could be sitting in. A few months ago, I was incredibly excited to learn that I had been accepted. As someone who has spent years watchin
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Nitish Beejawat
Nitish Beejawat

Building Blockchain Infrastructure That Scales | L1 Protocol, DeFi Systems & Custom Chain Architecture | Founder at Tantrija Enterprises

13h ·
CXO/Founder
URGENT | Looking for a 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 & 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁 I've been building a startup that I genuinely believe has the potential to solve a massive problem at scale, and I'm now entering the fundraising phase. I'm looking for someo
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Said Shah Ahmadi
Said Shah Ahmadi

CEO & Founder | Front-End Developer | Community Builder

13h ·
CXO/Founder
One of the best free resources for learning product design and UI/UX. If you're a UI/UX designer, frontend developer, product manager, or startup founder, I highly recommend Y Combinator's Design Review playlist. What makes this series different is that it doesn't just showcase beautiful designs it
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Arman Bhatia

Co-Founder at PhysiCine Labs

13h ·
Runway and Sora are great for visual sketches, but professional cinema requires absolute physical and spatial control. Here is a 30-second walkthrough of our new production interface for PhysiCine Labs (officially applied to Y Combinator). 🚀🎬 We have engineered an advanced UI framework where 90
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Rigo Guadron
Rigo Guadron

Built the AI agent that replaces your web team. Research, design, SEO, growth — autonomous. Future-ready infrastructure.

14h ·
Entry Level
I'm applying to Y Combinator before Monday's deadline. The part of my story I almost buried turned out to be the strongest part of the application. OrbitWeb ran as an agency for years. Real clients, real websites, real invoices. Now we're making the jump to SaaS with WebCore, an AI agent for tech
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Chizaram Agbanelo
Chizaram Agbanelo

I Talk AI | DevSecOps intern @ Purpose Unlimited | AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner | CS @ TMU

15h ·
Entry Level
$10bn for a router. $300M for a quantum lab. One week, two bets on where AI actually makes money. 5 things from this week in AI/tech most people missed 👇🏾 1️⃣ Stripe is reportedly in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~$10bn, an 8x markup from its $1.3bn valuation in May. Simon Taylor framed it well, St
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Ecem Guvener
Ecem Guvener

Y Combinator Hackathon 🏆,HackEurope 2026 🏆, ETH Oxford Hackathon 🏆 | Ex System Analyst @ OBC | CS @ UoM + Scholar | IBM Z Student Ambassador | National-level basketball player | Founder Engineer of QuantumProofOps

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CXO/FounderYC DiscussionTrending
Nicolas Dessaigne (The General Partner at Y Combinator ) × Ecem Guvener 👀 …just kidding… for now(Give it a few years or even sooner). Y Combinator Startup School Paris at STATION F, the world’s largest startup campus, was easily one of the most inspiring events I’ve attended. “Wait… are you ec
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🚀 InsurTech Funding News | Klaimee (YC P26) Raises $5.5M Seed to Protect the Next Generation of AI Agents As autonomous AI agents become more capable, a new challenge is emerging: who takes responsibility when AI makes costly mistakes? YC backed Klaimee (YC P26) has announced a $5.5 million Seed
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Shashank Bhardwaj
Shashank Bhardwaj

Building @enclavelabs | AI Engineer | RAG Infra | Built apps serving 1M+ users | Vibe Code Cleanup Specialist

17h ·
There was an idea. Not a clear vision, not a defined path just the shape of something that mattered. I started this journey alone two months ago, with the conviction of a single word: Privacy. Privacy for the isolated organizations. The banks whose security teams keep vetoing every AI tool. The ho
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