Robinhood unveiled Robinhood Venture Fund II (RVII), a publicly traded fund debuting August 13 at $25 per share, aiming to raise $200 million to invest in Y Combinator startups while charging traditional VC-style fees.
Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, have urged the Trump administration not to ban US access to Chinese open-weight AI models. They argue a ban would harm US startups by increasing costs and benefiting major US AI labs, while the White House discusses potential safeguards and theft allegations.
Figma has acquired Bud, an AI and coding platform, to enhance its design capabilities with AI and integrate coding closer to its canvas. Bud and its previous iteration, Orchids, will shut down by July 18, with users needing to migrate projects.
Figma has acquired Bud, an AI and coding agent platform, to integrate AI and coding closer to its design canvas. Bud and its previous iteration, Orchids, will shut down by July 18, with users needing to migrate projects.
Türk kuruculara sahip ABD merkezli Derya girişimi, tohum öncesi yatırım turunda 212, Y Combinator ve Umur Çubukçu'dan 1,1 milyon dolar yatırım aldı. Derya, yapay zeka altyapısıyla lojistik süreçlerini otomatikleştirmeyi ve yeni pazarlara açılmayı hedefliyor.
Aseon Labs, a Redwood City startup, secured $10 million in a seed round led by Crane Venture Partners to develop automated pods for inspecting, cleaning, and charging robotaxis. These 'robotic pit stops' aim to reduce costly deadhead miles, enhancing the profitability and utilization of autonomous vehicle fleets.
Sam Altman is offering Y Combinator startups $2 million in OpenAI tokens in exchange for equity. This deal aims to reduce AI infrastructure costs for startups while giving OpenAI a stake in their success and encouraging them to build on its platform.
Si Sam Altman ne détient pas d’actions d’OpenAI, il en contrôle une partie du capital via sa participation dans l’incubateur Y Combinator qui, lui, est actionnaire de la start-up d’intelligence artificielle.
Skio, a 2020 Y Combinator alum that handled subscription payments for brands, has been acquired by competitor Recharge. Founder Kennan Frost, who left his engineering job at Pinterest during COVID after a panic attack, posted that the company walked with $105 million cash having raised only $8 million. At the time of sale, Skio had reached $32 million ARR and processed $4 billion in payments. Frost is now working on a new startup called Icon.
Y Combinator mezunu eBrandValue, sosyal medya verilerini satış ve piyasa değeri gibi finansal metriklerle ilişkilendiren yapay zeka modeliyle INFORMS 2026 IAAA ödüllerinde dünya üçüncüsü oldu.
Harshita Arora, 24, has become Y Combinator's youngest general partner after serving as a visiting partner since 2021. The self-taught coder from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, dropped out of school in 8th grade, taught herself programming, and built a crypto portfolio tracking app that became the second most popular finance app in the US and Canada in 2016. She later co-founded trucking platform AtoB, valued at $800 million in 2022, before stepping down in 2024 to join YC.
