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.
