The Latest Breaking News from Y Combinator

Airbnb's founders had trouble convincing early investors that people would want to stay with strangers. Then a $40 cereal box helped change their minds.

Inside the ChatGPT founder’s other venture, a crypto-powered sci-fi startup.

Regulators rushed Friday to seize the assets of one of Silicon Valley's top banks, marking the largest failure of a US financial institution since the height of the financial crisis almost 15 years ago. Silicon Valley Bank, the nation’s 16th-largest bank, failed after depositors hurried to withdraw money this week…

The implosion of Silicon Valley Bank could force hundreds of tech startups to lay off workers or shut down completely. It remains unclear how much, if any, of depositors' money will be returned.

US regulators have seized Silicon Valley Bank's assets, marking the largest failure of a financial institution since the height of the GFC

At startup incubator Y Combinator, Sam Altman got interested in aging research after an experiment with old and young mice, MIT Tech Review reported.

How one medical device founder-turned-investor kept all the balls in the air at once.

Jen Wolf and Brett Gibson lay out the future of the early-stage VC firm.

In recent weeks, some of Silicon Valley’s most famous technologists have hailed a historically polarizing energy source — nuclear power — as a solution to both cutting carbon emissions and weaning the world off now-controversial Russian gas.

Post-pandemic, many fintechs are seeking to help customers better spend, save, and invest in an era of heightened inflation. Among them is Soon, a Salt Lake City-based fintech that just raised $500,000 and is participating in the Winter 2022 Y Combinator Cohort.

A new psychedelics company, part of the 2021 Y Combinator alumni, has officially launched. Mindstate Design Labs is a biotech startup focused on developing new drugs capable of inducing curated states of mind.