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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
Building High-Growth Tech Ventures in the AI Era with Kory Jeffrey of Inovia Capital
- ▶ 4:11 Corey Jeffrey Um, so you get a lot of that sort of like innovation and for most of the Canadian startups that go to places like Y Combinator, they come from the University of Waterloo. 2 times in the scene
Building the Intelligence Engine for Finance and National Security with Shaun Modi of Capitol AI
- ▶ 1:57 Shaun Modi Went through Y Combinator in summer 24, and, uh, since then I've just been accelerating.
- ▶ 2:03 Kristian Marquez What, what inspired you to apply to the YC? 8 times in the scene
Automating Process Engineering Workflows with Temirlan Rakhmetzhanov of Armeta
- ▶ 6:57 Tamerlan Rakhmetzhanov He got accepted into Y Combinator when he was 17 years old.
EP5: Air Conditioning to AI: Inside Carrier’s GCC Playbook Across India, China & Mexico
- ▶ 27:53 Abhay Tandon I met, went and met, uh, you know, the partners at Y Combinator, to Draper University, met Tim Draper coincidentally over there, and a bunch of other people who are the local heroes out there.
Transforming the Real Sector with Decision Intelligence with Sonali Vijayavargiya of Augment Ventures | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 3:49 Kristian Marquez And so I'm curious, I think I was, last year I was reading, uh, amongst the, um, the more current Y Combinator, Y Combinator classes that they're seeing an increasing number of PhDs as it relates to AI.
- ▶ 20:46 Sonali Vijayavargiya Uh, you know, my mailbox is full of lists from all accelerators, Y Combinators, everybody.
Ending Interview Theatre and Finding True Professional Fit
- ▶ 5:01 Kingshuk Khan My first company, uh, which we were actually Y Combinator finalists for Once Upon a Time.
Navigating Venture Ecosystems and Community Investing with Glenn Borok of Alumni Ventures | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 11:22 Glenn Borok YC who have raised from really incredible funds as well.
Redefining Digital Consciousness with Vishnu Hari of ego | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
The New Economics of Startups in the AI Era with Peter Walker of Carta
- ▶ 11:53 Peter Walker If you're doing these talks in the middle of San Francisco to, you know, founders who've been through YC or something like that, they are well aware of the game, and they're kind of pretty bought into the Silicon Valley, excuse me, Silicon…
Transforming Due Diligence with AI: Wokelo’s Automation of Private Market Research and Risk Analysis
- ▶ 37:53 Sid Masson So I think that helped me, you know, going through why combinator videos just as a pastime was super helpful.
Inside Corporate Venture Capital & Accelerators with Danielle D'Agostaro of WVV Capital
- ▶ 11:31 Danielle DiAgostaro Like, um, YC, I, I think is still, you know, even though they're doing over a hundred companies, a cohort or something, I don't know.
- ▶ 20:29 Kristian Marquez You can tell, you know, your stuff, uh, and, you know, before we wrap up and I want to talk a little bit more about WVV, but, um, you know, you mentioned Y Combinator.
Early-Stage Climate Tech Investing: Insights from Avesta Fund on Building Impactful Portfolios
- ▶ 3:18 Srikant Vasan Uh, whether it was what we were doing at Techstars or also some of my counterparts at places like Y Combinator or AngelList or 500 startups, uh, everyone was following a very similar playbook.
AI in Wealth Management: Scaling Financial Advisory & Democratizing Access
- ▶ 26:50 Kristian Marquez I was looking at, uh, someone had published the percentage of doctorates or founders with doctorates in the last three or four years of Y Combinator cohorts, and it's been increasing.
Investing in Emerging U.S. Markets and Founder-Led Growth with FirstMile Ventures
- ▶ 28:24 Aaron Stachel You know, there's, there's not like a founder in every Y Combinator class, you know, thinking about solving that problem, you know, but you find somebody who sort of understands it deeply and how it works and where the opportunity is, you…
Navigating the Startup Landscape: Insights from Raj Malik of Pixel Perfect Ventures
- ▶ 28:51 Kristian Marquez I think I was reading a stat, uh, over the weekend, and for everybody's benefit, we're reporting this in, um, March, 25, but, uh, one in five of Y Combinator's most recent class, their entire code base was generated by AI completely.
Mastering Startup Fundraising: Insights from FounderSuite CEO Nathan Beckford
- ▶ 5:51 Nathan Beckord And there's lots of advice out there from Paul Graham and why coming here and a thousand other pundits about start solving one micro pain point and build on that.
- ▶ 10:03 Nathan Beckord In the last decade or so with the rise of online platforms and social networks and why Common Air has their private, I think it's called book phase, this internal network where people discuss and talk about investors.
34 - Scaling Food Innovation: How RisingFoodStars Supports Startups in the Food Industry
- ▶ 8:51 Kristian Marquez I was thinking more along the lines of, in the United States, Y Combinator, probably one of the more popular accelerators in the country, and in advance of each cohort, they'll publish a list of problems or challenges that they're…
31 - Revolutionizing Contracts with Agree.com Co-Founder Marty Ringlein
- ▶ 23:25 Marty Ringlein I was really nice to that intern, and we have a really good relationship now, but he goes on later to found a company that goes through YC that gets sold to Twilio for 3.2 billion dollars.
19 - From Exit to Empowerment: A LegalTech Operator’s Journey with Ishan Girdhar
- ▶ 5:38 Ishan Girdhar He said, yeah, I read about Y Combinator said, if your first version of your product's not considered ugly, that means you went out too late.