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YC News
Y Combinator highlighted our work last week. It has been an incredible milestone for us after a couple of months of intense work.
The reception we got so far has exceeded our expectations. Since then, Ali Khalatpour and I have been heads-down in conversations with some of the most demanding industries on (and off) the planet. The diversity of interest is a validation of our core vision: the world needs faster, more resilient compute architecture.
It’s been particularly insightful to engage wit ...more
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Helping Startups Build Reliable Tech | QA · DevOps · Tech Strategy · System Design
Posted 8h ago
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Stop putting all your eggs in one basket.
Y Combinator is great — but it's not the only path to building a successful startup.
With a 1-3% acceptance rate, banking everything on YC is a gamble.
Here's what most founders miss: there are incredible accelerators doing amazing work right now:
🚀 500 Global — Backed 2,800+ companies across 81 countries
https://lnkd.in/grjYdZGq
🚀 Techstars — A global network with mentorship-driven programs
https://lnkd.in/g6w4iWPA
🚀 Antler — Built for day-zer ...more
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YC Launch
Today's startup with momentum goes to OctaPulse (YC W26)! Congrats on launching and being featured by Y Combinator
Since Grok is picking today, here is what it thought about the problem they are solving:
"They address a painful, labor-intensive process in fish grading and phenotyping, with proven 95% accuracy driving adoption; customers will pay for this efficiency in a high-stakes industry like aquaculture."
To get all the insights and recommendations for OctaPulse from the leading AI models ...more
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YC Launch
Wall Street's biggest advantage was never smarter people. It was more of them.
Ajay Misra built production AI at Mayo Clinic and scaled Cal AI to 10M users. Aryah Oztanir studied capital markets from the inside at Wells Fargo and Bank of America. They saw the same problem from different angles and decided to fix it together.
Now backed by Y Combinator, they're building o11 (YC W26).
Here's the problem:
A Goldman analyst and a boutique analyst can be equally talented. But one has a hundred ju ...more
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60% Cash Burn Reduction for Y Combinator, Techstars, Antler & Other Accelerator-Backed Startups | We build offshore dev & marketing teams for funded startups — 60% cheaper, 3x faster | 2-week onboarding
Posted 14h ago
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YC News
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐚 3-𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐈𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 $12𝐁 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 👇
🚀 Y Combinator Startup Spotlight – Human Behavior (YC X25)
In 2025, three young founders asked a question billions in software failed to answer:
Why do users really behave the way they do inside a product?
Not what dashboards say. Not what event logs suggest. But why users drop off, churn, and convert.
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The answer they built is Human Behavior (YC X25) — 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐈-𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢� ...more
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YC News
Y Combinator's Legal AI Thesis Playing Out in Real Time
YC doesn't do trends. They do disruption at scale.
15+ legal AI startups backed in 3 years. More than any category except dev tools. This isn't a bet. It's a thesis and it's already generating $12B+ in valuations.
📘Harvey (YC W23) - Now $8B Valuation
Winston Weinberg: first-year associate at O'Melveny → cold-emailed Sam Altman → built Harvey
Now: $100M+ ARR, 40 of top US law firms as customers (8 of top 10 highest-grossing).
📘EvenUp (Y ...more
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Broken in the head… and all-in 🔥
Michael Seibel nailed it perfectly:
“I think doing a startup is kind of dumb, it’s ridiculously painful and the opportunity to get a lot of return is pretty low.
What I’ve come to realization is that startup founders are little bit broken in the head - and the reason why they do startups is because living in the real world is painful for them.”
Two years ago meeting him backstage at SaaStr Ai Annual was an absolute honor… because he was literally describing m ...more
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Founder & Managing Director @Avare Biotech | Male Vitality Fitness Tracking Platform | Sеmen Analysis app for every farmer | AgriTech | Healthcare
Posted 19h ago
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YC News
Super excited to share: Avare BioTech is applying to Y Combinator with MAKSA – our agentic AI that turns any smartphone into a portable semen analyzer.
It already delivers lab-grade motility & progressive motility results (r > 0.90 across 5 species, trusted by 120+ vets). No shipping, no $50k machines, no waiting days. Concentration is coming fast.
We thought YC only backed slick SaaS… until we saw GrazeMate (YC W26). Sam Rogers, the 19-year-old cattle-station kid building AI herding drones, p ...more
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Momentum is built long before the spotlight ever turns on. 🔥
I’m excited to share that CouponDonation.com is heading into the Y Combinator Batch 2026/2027 — a defining milestone in its growth trajectory.
This achievement reflects disciplined execution, technical depth, and strong founder alignment. Paul George S. Savluc co-founded the company alongside Harshit Agrawal, who also interns with us at OpenQQuantify. Supporting Harshit’s evolution from builder to venture-backed founder has been bo ...more
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YC News
Big outcomes are rarely accidental they are engineered through discipline, collaboration, and long term thinking 🚀
I’m proud to share that CouponDonation.com has officially been accepted into the Y Combinator Batch 2026/2027.
This milestone represents more than acceptance into a world class accelerator. It reflects strategic execution, technical rigor, and founder resilience. Paul George Savluc co-founded the company alongside Harshit Agrawal, who also interns with us at OpenQQuantify. Watchi ...more
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91% returns. 0 liquidations. No team. No funding. Just one founder and AI.
Here's how I got here.
In 2022, we got into Y Combinator as "10 Minute Squad" — a completely different product. It didn't work out.
But I'd been trading crypto on my own for 10 years. Losing sleep over charts. Building strategies no one would ever see. The kind of obsession that doesn't look like a career — it looks like a problem.
In 2024, I made the call: pivot everything into AI-native crypto trading.
GPT changed ...more
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Founder & CEO at Salesdep.ai: We convert leads into sales opportunities 24/7 with AI that acts like your best rep | 20+ Years in Sales | Built 70+ Sales Systems | Clever Consulting Founder ($37M+ for Clients)
Posted 20h ago
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YC Discussion
If you’re building a startup and dreaming about YC — read this.
Yesterday I attended an event organized by Rory McElearney and Valencia Codes .
The speaker was Toni Lopez , who openly shared his journey of getting into Y Combinator , going through the accelerator, and launching their product.
As someone who has applied to YC multiple times — and plans to apply again — this topic is deeply personal for me.
And honestly?
I haven’t attended a more insightful event in a long time.
What stood o ...more
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YC Discussion
Still processing tonight’s conversation with Y Combinator at the University of Michigan.
Huge thank you to Jared Friedman, Ankit Gupta, Harshita Arora, and Haakam Aujla for sharing real, unfiltered insights about building companies from the ground up and what actually makes them durable.
The small group dinner afterward made it even more meaningful. The dialogue was rigorous and refreshingly honest about the realities of building in tech.
Events like this are a reminder that whether you are i ...more
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YC News
Behind every great startup is a story of collaboration and relentless drive 🚀
I am incredibly proud to announce that www.CouponDonation.com is officially heading into the Y Combinator (YC) Batch 2026/2027!
This journey has been a masterclass in teamwork. Paul George S. co-founded this venture alongside the brilliant Harshit Agrawal, who also serves as an intern with us at OpenQQuantify . Watching Harshit found this company and helping him navigate the path to YC has been a highlight of my y ...more
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🚀 Execution. Vision. Mentorship.
That’s the formula behind meaningful innovation.
I’m excited to share that CouponDonation.com has been accepted into the Y Combinator Batch 2026/2027 a significant milestone for the team and a strong validation of the problem they’re solving.
Paul George S. co-founded the company alongside Harshit Agrawal, who also interns with us at OpenQQuantify . Supporting Harshit as he built, refined, and positioned this company for YC has been a powerful reminder that ...more
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Why Marketplaces Win Big 🏆
Ever wondered why companies like Airbnb, Instacart, Uber, Amazon, DoorDash dominate their industries so completely?
Marketplaces are the most likely to build "winner-take-all" companies.
Here are the key takeaways for anyone in the startup and venture capital space:
The Power Law Effect: In the world of venture capital, the biggest winners far outperform all other businesses by orders of magnitude.
The Top 10 Impact: A staggering 50% of the overall value of the YC ...more
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Driving Innovation at the Intersection of Shared Services, Tech & Governance | Advisor | Board Member | Misk 2030 Leader
Posted 1d ago
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Disrupting the Primitives: An analysis of Y Combinator’s 2026 Spring RFS
Y Combinator’s latest Request for Startups (RFS) represents a significant turning point in the AI cycle. We have moved from the “Implementation Phase” (Generative Features) to the “Systemic Disruption Phase,” in which AI is beginning to rewrite the fundamental primitives of entire industries that had previously been isolated from software margins.
These three strategic changes outlined by the RFS define the 2026 technology ...more
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Software Engineer @ EDGE | AI/ML & MLOps | 🏆 9× Competition Winner | Microsoft Certified (AI-900, PL-900) | AWS Certified
Posted 1d ago
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YC Discussion
I just wrapped office hours with Jon Xu (General Partner, Y Combinator) and walked him through what I’m building: DeedFlow - a compliance-first orchestration system for tokenized real estate.
Core insight: tokenization is easy to pitch, but settlement is where deals fail.
DeedFlow turns exchange-to-property conversion into a gated workflow: KYC/AML, approvals/NOCs, ownership proof, valuation refresh, escrow/settlement checks - and generates an audit-ready transaction pack so teams can move fast ...more
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Don’t just teach robots to see. Teach them to understand space. 🤖✨
Check out the video! 👇 I just gave my #ReachyMini (by Hugging Face / Pollen Robotics) a massive upgrade: #SpatialIntelligence.
Instead of a flat 2D feed, Reachy now uses Apple’s ML SHARP to generate 3D #GaussianSplats of its environment on the fly. Through a #SparkJS based web interface, I can view the live feed, inspect the 3D splats, and guide Reachy's gaze.
But here’s the catch: My laptop's NVIDIA RTX 4060 is currently sw ...more
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YC Discussion
Don’t optimize for sounding impressive. Optimize for being undeniable.
10 minutes. That’s how long your YC interview lasts - and it can permanently change the trajectory of your company. They’re testing clarity of thought, speed of reasoning, and depth of understanding - not presentation polish.
Last night at Snell & Wilmer’s Palo Alto office, we hosted "Get YC Ready – 8th Edition," a candid, high-signal conversation with founders who’ve recently been through the Y Combinator process.
I h ...more
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