#Y Combinator
7 stories taggedY Combinator.

AfterQuery hits a $3.2 billion valuation in five months, breaking Y Combinator's speed record
The AI training-data startup went from a $300 million Series A to unicorn status faster than any company in Y Combinator's history. Its founders are 22 and 23 years old.

Circleback Now Has a Free Plan. Here Is What You Actually Get.
The AI meeting note-taker is opening its doors to free users for the first time, hoping word-of-mouth does the marketing work that paid ads never did.

A Dog Named Rosie Inspired a Cancer Vaccine Startup. The Science Is Still Fuzzy.
Australian entrepreneur Paul Conyngham says AI helped shrink his dog's tumours. Now he has Y Combinator backing and plans for human trials. Researchers say the evidence is far thinner than the pitch.

A startup that checks AI-written code just jumped from a $60 million to a $550 million valuation in under a year
Blacksmith raised $45 million to solve a problem AI coding tools quietly created: who checks the code the machines wrote?

He Offered Job Interviews to Anyone Who Got a Tattoo. Then the Internet Found Out.
The founder behind the viral 'tattoo for an interview' story says the backlash missed the point. Here is what actually happened at that party.

This startup uses AI to hunt for chip materials that run cooler
Discovered Materials raised $9 million to deploy AI agents that test thousands of potential new chip materials a day, aiming to cut the heat that makes data centres so expensive to run.

Dili raises $21.7 million to use AI for the paperwork nightmare of America's construction boom
A startup called Dili has secured fresh funding to help infrastructure projects, think data centres and factories, stay on the right side of the overlapping federal rules that govern wages, safety and the environment.