The company has funded life sciences companies in areas including data management, synthetic biology, robotics, therapeutics, digital health, diagnostics, and medical devices, with examples involving personalized cancer treatments and microbiome sequencing.

The Y Combinator Standard Deal - $500k

The program is for students who want to finish school before doing YC and provides funding upon acceptance.

The SAFE is a free, standardized agreement that startups use to raise early money. The page explains its forms, valuation caps, and conversion.

YC says applicants need little preparation for interviews and offers recommendations for how to prepare.

How YC's SAFE compares to convertible notes and priced rounds — interest, maturity, valuation, legal cost, and ownership clarity, and when to use each.

The page describes opportunities to work at a YC startup, attend talks with founders, and join the YC Internship Cohort, a community for students, builders, and future founders.

Find startup jobs at over 1,000 YC startups and connect with founders on Y Combinator. Engineering jobs, design jobs, marketing jobs, recruiting jobs and thousands more.

A list of founders YC has funded across many verticals including hardware, edtech, biotech, healthcare, developer tools, consumer and enterprise, to name a few.

Co-founder of Posterous (acquired by Twitter) and Initialized Capital. Early engineer at Palantir, designed company logo.

Y Combinator is a network of people who trust one another, often solely on the basis of participation in the YC program. Members of the YC community share a common set of values, such as integrity, respect and accountability.

Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded over 5,000 companies and worked with over 7,000 founders. Every 3 months, over 10,000 companies apply to Y Combinator’s accelerator, which typically has a 1% acceptance rate.

Y Combinator's Principles, as written by its founders.

Use the form below to contact YC with questions about the program, applying to YC, press inquiries, the Female Founders Conference, Startup School, Hacker News, Demo Day and more.

Y Combinator created a model for funding early-stage startups and invests in a large number of startups four times a year.

Y Combinator's startup accelerator helps people start companies.

Y Combinator is looking for startups working on ideas it is interested in.

Y Combinator's Series A term sheet with clean and standard terms.

The page offers free sales agreements for startups.

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan spends **$100,000–$200,000 annually on AI tokens**, integrating agents into daily tasks—from coding and research to managing emails, Dropbox files, and even therapy notes. He shares his **23 Claude Code skills (gstack)** on GitHub to demonstrate agent capabilities. Y Combinator also deploys an internal AI agent, *Stray Light*, with a personality and full company context, reshaping operations. Tan advocates for **personal, user-controlled AI agents** but notes high costs remain a barrier to widespread adoption.

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