The Latest Breaking News from Y Combinator

An NVIDIA-linked startup plans the first hotel on the Moon, with rooms allegedly costing £330,000, sparking awe, doubt and online mockery.

AI workflow automation platform Model ML announced on Nov. 24 that it raised $75 million in Series A financing to eliminate the formatting grunt work that haunts junior bankers. The funding comes just six months after its seed round and only 12 months after launch.

Reddit Inc. (NYSE:RDDT) co-founder Alexis Ohanian and Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham are among a growing number of people condemning the Donald Trump administration's 2025 ICE deportation operations.

After getting rejected at least 3 times by Y Combinator, the founders of EvenUp have become legal tech leaders.

Jesse Itzler, who ultimately sold his $5 billion-in-sales private jet business to Warren Buffett, says the world doesn’t reward perfect plans, "it rewards action."

Mindstate Design Labs is developing drugs that aim to deliver psychedelic benefits without a trip, drawing funding from Y Combinator and the founders of OpenAI, Neuralink, Instacart (NASDAQ:CART), Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), and Twitch, according to Wired.

The co-founder of Silicon Valley’s most influential startup accelerator is delivering a reality check to ambitious teenagers everywhere. Paul Graham, whose Y Combinator has funded giants like Airbnb (NASDAQ:ABNB), Stripe, Dropbox (NASDAQ:DBX), and Reddit (NYSE:RDDT), is warning high schoolers to pump the brakes on their entrepreneurial dreams.

Since dropping out of Stanford University, Sam Altman has become one of the world's most influential tech entrepreneurs – at the helm of OpenAI and its artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT. The author of a new biography of Altman tells RFI what his ascent reveals about AI, Silicon Valley and how…

One of the leaders behind Silicon Valley’s biggest start-ups is advising high school students to embrace learning in class before jumping into their dream business.