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Y Combinator in 30 Seconds: ✅ World’s top startup accelerator 💵 Offers $500K funding ($125K for 7%, $375K on SAFE) 🗓️ 4 batches/year (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall) 👥 Backed Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox, and 4,000+ startups 📈 Massive network + Dem

Y Combinator’s Identity Crisis: Growth or Decline? Y Combinator, the famed Silicon Valley accelerator behind Airbnb, Stripe, and Doordash, is facing scrutiny as it expands. Once exclusive, YC now runs more frequent and larger startup batches, rais

🚀 YC Spotlight – Recent Startup Highlight Meet Cekura, an IIT Bombay–founded startup from YC's Spring ’25 batch: 🗣️ Tests AI voice agents by simulating toxic, tricky, real-world conversations 💰 Raised $2.4M seed from YC, Flex Capital, Hike Vent

Indian startups funded by YC have fallen sharply over the years. Several reasons appear to be behind the drop - - Registration requirement in US, Canada, Singapore, or the Cayman Islands. - Increased access to capital via accelerator programs in I

🚀 YC Spring 2025: It’s an AI World (But Robots Are Back Too) At Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 Demo Day this week, one thing was crystal clear, AI is everywhere. Nearly every startup on stage was either building AI agents or crafting tools to help oth

Surge, The Y Combinator of India! So Surge is a seed-stage accelerator program launched in 2019 by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA). It provides early-stage startups in India and Southeast Asia with funding, mentorship, and

You could raise up to $2 Million USD for your early stage startup by applying to these funding programs closing by 1st June '25. 🔥 Inflection Point Ventures $250K-$2M USD Deadline: 30th May 2025 Callapina Capital $100K-$250K USD Deadline: 30th Ma

🚀 Y Combinator Spring 2025: Rise of Agentic AI Startups 🤖 This year, YC focused heavily on Agentic AI intelligent systems that make decisions and act independently. 📌 Quick Highlights: 🧠 70 startups selected 💸 $500K funding each 🎯 Core the

𝗟𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗕𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗽 Many promising startups fail—not for lack of vision, but because founders surrender control too soon. In the scramble for funding, ownership is tra

The Most Dangerous Founder Trait? Not Overconfidence. It’s Compromise. Indian startup founders are gritty. But grit alone doesn’t build legacy. Here's the trap most fall into: → “Let’s do what investors want.” → “Let’s copy what’s working.” → “Let