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Summer Fellows Grants

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.

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Join us at AI Startup School — June 16-17

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.

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Garry Tan

2/12/2025

Announcing the YC Spring 2025 batch

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.

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Dalton Caldwell

1/20/2025

YC Winter 2025 batch applications due by Tuesday, November 12, 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.

Admissions YC News

Jared Friedman

11/5/2024

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Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI

by Garry Tan10/4/2024

YC is at our best when backing founders with an ethos of building for others, including strong open source developers like the founders of Continue and many others.

Join us at Startup School Europe in London - November 23

by Y Combinator10/3/2024

Applications for Startup School Europe are now open!

YC Fall 2024 batch applications due by 8/27

by Dalton Caldwell8/6/2024

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

Join us at Startup School 2024 in San Francisco - July 27

by Y Combinator7/8/2024

Applications for Startup School 2024 are now open!

Female Founders Conference applications are open now

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.

Dissecting the past to predict the future: Tracy Young on building TigerEye

by Greg Kumparak6/12/2024

In 2018, Tracy Young and her co-founders sold PlanGrid for $875 million. By 2021, she was ready to jump back in and do it all over again with a brand new startup. I chatted with Tracy about what drives her and some of what she's learned along the way.