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Sep 28, 2026Direct air capture plants secure 15-year advance carbon removal purchase agreements from Microsoft, Google, and Stripe at $300 per ton.
Sep 28, 2026Discounted tender offers and structured secondary transactions provide liquidity to employees at Stripe, SpaceX, and Databricks amid extended IPO windows.
Sep 28, 2026Compute credits and distribution access make corporate venture arms favored co-investors over traditional institutional lead partners.
Sep 27, 2026🚨 Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’... via @TechCrunch #ArtificialIntelligenceTechNewsInnovatio
Jun 16, 2026We're excited to announce that Christopher Golda and Grey Baker are joining Y Combinator as General Partners. Chris and Grey have both been Visiting Partners at YC, where they've already made a big impact working closely with founders across multipl...
Jun 11, 2026We're thrilled to announce that Diana Hu has been promoted to Managing Partner at Y Combinator. Diana first came through YC as a founder. She co-founded Escher Reality (S17), an augmented reality backend that was acquired by Niantic in 2018. Diana r...
Apr 6, 2026We're thrilled to announce that Harshita Arora is joining Y Combinator as a General Partner. Harshita has been a Visiting Partner at YC since the Summer 2025 batch, making her the youngest visiting partner in YC's history. Harshita discovered codin...
Feb 5, 2026Going forward, YC will once again invest in US, Canada, Cayman, and Singapore corporations. We previously decided to remove Canada from this list because we noticed that our top-performing Canadian companies reincorporated in the US. This is likely ...