As Techstars retools, some former staffers say it lost focus on what made it successful | TechCrunch
Well-known accelerator group Techstars announced a slew of changes to its operations this week, including the shuttering of some of
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Y Combinator
Dili wants to automate due diligence with AI | TechCrunch
Stephanie Song, formerly on the corporate development and ventures team at Coinbase, was often frustrated by the volume of due
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Y Combinator wants 100 times more MRI scans | TechCrunch
Leveraging resources such as virtual data rooms and shared labs makes it easier for biotech startups to grow. This is
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Foundry is shutting down in slow motion | TechCrunch
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The hard tech renaissance accelerates as YC spotlights space, manufacturing and defense | TechCrunch
Y Combinator is putting hard tech in the spotlight. On Wednesday, the accelerator released an updated list of ideas it
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Three San Francisco supervisors receive threats following YC President Garry Tan’s tweet | TechCrunch
Y Combinator President Garry Tan’s online rant tweet may be deleted from X, however, the effects are lingering, especially for
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Y Combinator President Garry Tan publishes a menacing tweet before deleting it, apologizing: “Die slow motherf*ckers” | TechCrunch
Garry Tan, whose success in Silicon Valley has likely inspired many of the founders he mentors, is once again attracting
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Startup brewing waste to replace palm oil gets Gates Foundation cash | TechCrunch
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is pumping $3.5 million into C16 Biosciences, the Y Combinator-backed company fermenting alternatives to
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Pier banks $2.4M to launch ‘Stripe for credit’ | TechCrunch
While working at fintech lending platform Stilt, Jessica Zhang and Alex Hegevall Clarke saw how expensive and time-consuming it was
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Y Combinator-backed Intrinsic is building infrastructure for trust and safety teams | TechCrunch
A few years ago, Karine Mellata and Michael Lin met while working at Apple’s fraud engineering and algorithmic risk team.
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