by Harj Taggar2/17/2025

This summer, YC will be giving grants to college students to work on their own technical projects. We’re calling these the Summer Fellows Grants. We hope this will encourage the smartest students to indulge their intellectual curiosity and work on hard technical things.

by Garry Tan2/12/2025

We're gathering 2,000 of the top CS undergrads, masters, and PhD candidates in AI to hear from speakers including Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Andrej Karpathy, Andrew Ng, and many more — the world’s top AI experts and founders who will teach you how to build the future.

by Dalton Caldwell1/20/2025

Y Combinator is now running four batches per year: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. We completed the first ever fall batch last year, F24, and are proud to announce the first ever spring batch. Applications are now open.

by Jared Friedman, Aaron Epstein11/5/2024

To better serve founders given the rapid rate of technological change, YC recently switched from two to four batches per year. The winter 2025 batch will run from January to March, and applications are due on November 12.

by Y Combinator10/3/2024

Applications for Startup School Europe are now open!

by Dalton Caldwell8/6/2024

In response to overwhelming demand, we are running a YC batch this fall. Applications are now open.

by Surbhi Sarna, Diana Hu6/18/2024

We’re bringing the Female Founders Conference back in-person, and we’ll be hosting it on August 2 at our office in the Dogpatch in San Francisco.