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Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees
Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees. As we reported…
Y Combinator says Google is a ‘monopolist’ that has ‘stunted’ the startup ecosystem
Fabled startup investor and accelerator Y Combinator has some choice words for Google in an amicus…
Rippling raises $450M at a $16.8B valuation, reveals YC is a customer
HR tech startup Rippling has raised a $450 million Series G round at a $16.8 billion…
Techstars increases startup funding to $220,000, mirroring YC structure
Techstars, a nearly 20-year-old startup accelerator, announced new terms for startups that enter its three-month program.…
Defense tech Theseus landed Y Combinator, the US Special Forces and $4.3M from a tweet
On February 18, 2024, Ian Laffey posted on X that he and two others he’d just…
Former Y Combinator president Geoff Ralston launches new AI ‘safety’ fund
Geoff Ralston, well-known in the startup community for his years at Y Combinator, is back in…
YC-backed Taxo raised $5M to slash healthcare admin with its AI ‘reasoning engine’
When British doctor Ahmed Kerwan began working as a physician, the paperwork burden shocked him. On…
Browser Use, the tool making it easier for AI ‘agents’ to navigate websites, raises $17M
We may not have an agreed-upon definition of AI “agent” yet, but a multitude of startups…
Michael Seibel is leaving Y Combinator
Michael Seibel announced late Wednesday on X that after more than 12 years at Y Combinator,…
YC-backed food supply startup Vendease restructures employees’ salaries
Y Combinator-backed Nigerian food procurement startup Vendease has changed its employee pay structure and is seeking…
Y Combinator’s police surveillance darling Flock Safety raises $275M at $7.5B valuation
Flock Safety and one of its long-time VCs, Bedrock Capital, announced Thursday that the startup raised…
Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe’s Digital Markets Act
Y Combinator, one of the world’s most prolific startup accelerators, sent a letter on Wednesday urging…
10 startups to watch from Y Combinator’s W25 Demo Day
Silicon Valley’s most storied startup accelerator, Y Combinator, held its Winter 2025 Demo Day on Wednesday,…
Y Combinator founders raising less money signal a ‘vibe shift,’ VC says
Silicon Valley has been captivated by the prospect of AI, not only as a productivity enhancer…
Flower Labs launches a new service that automatically switches from local to cloud AI
Flower Labs, a Y Combinator-backed startup, on Tuesday launched a preview of its distributed cloud platform…
A quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated
With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using…
OpenAI launches GPT-4.5, its largest model to date
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re diving into OpenAI’s newest, biggest model GPT-4.5,…
Continue wants to help developers create and share custom AI coding assistants
A new startup wants to help developers create customized, contextual coding assistants that can connect with…
Fetii’s group rideshare app for young people attracts funding from Mark Cuban, YC
When he was a senior studying at Texas A&M University, Matthew Iommi realized that there were…
Lingo.dev is an app localization engine for developers
Monolinguists wanting to communicate with the global masses have never had it so easy. Trusty old…
A job ad for Y Combinator startup Firecrawl seeks to hire an AI agent for $15K a year
Last week, an ad from the Y Combinator job board for a tiny startup called Firecrawl…