Y Combinator
also referred to as: yc
includes Y Combinator Continuity
8 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Aug 3, 2020 by Sheel Mohnot · said 158 times in 35 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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brought up most by Siddhartha Ahluwalia (83), Viral Bajaria (17), Sharath Narayana (6), Sheel Mohnot (4), Vidit Aatrey (3), Varun Mayya (3), Mehul Nariyawala (3), Matt MacInnis (3)
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2026 31 mentions in 8 episodes 4 per episode
- Why Construction still Runs on Spreadsheets (And How AI Fixes It) | Sneha & Graham, Merlin AI
- ChatGPT Killed My $50M ARR Business Overnight | Swapnil Jain Observe Al
- And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
- What Mistake Founders Make With A-Players | Matt MacInnis | COO Rippling
- How Tanay Tandon is Building a $100 Billion Healthcare AI Company
- Which AI Model are companies actually Paying For in 2026? | Rohit Agarwal, Portkey
- How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
- Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 78 mentions in 10 episodes 8 per episode
- What's Happening To VC In India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha
- 6sense Did What Google Couldn’t : Targeting Companies, Not People | Viral Bajaria
- 2X SaaS Founder: How To Sell Global Tech Products From India | Sharath Narayana | Neon Show
- 3 Steps on How Large Companies Decide to Buy From a Startup or Not | CIO Karthik Chakkarapani
- Why Finding Your ‘Rapido Bet’ and Surviving Your ‘Meesho Miss is the Best Job | Pratik & Brij
- 10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
- Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
- How to Think Like a CEO & Build Like a Fighter | Shiv Shivakumar, Ex-CEO Nokia & Pepsico
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- Entrepreneur First’s Founder On Indian Talent, AI Startups, Selling SaaS Globally And Silicon Valley
- Dear Indians, Watch This Before Moving To America - Varun Mayya’s Brutally Honest Career Advice
- $10 Trillion Goal, Reverse Brain Drain & IPO Market I Nansi & Siddhartha On India’s Bright Future
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 16 mentions in 2 episodes 8 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Fampay Founder on Fintech for GenZ and Funding ft. Sambhav Jain | 100x Entrepreneur
- Supermorpheus, India’s first community driven fund ft. Sameer Guglani
- The rise of crypto with 1.5 cr+ Indian investors ft. Ashish Singhal, Founder, Coinswitch
- @firstcheque7252 CEO on Early Stage Investing and investments from founders ft. Kushal Bhagia
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 12 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures on his journey from Fintech Entrepreneur to Fintech VC
- Episode 55 | Inside the mind of Vidit Aatrey, Founder & CEO, Meesho
- @unacademy founder on Building a 3 Billion Edtech Giant ft. Gaurav Munjal
- Vishesh Rajaram, Speciale Invest on investing in seed-stage deep tech startups
- Nikhil Kapur, STRIVE Ventures on different SaaS models in Asia
- Episode 53 | Hemant Mohapatra, Partner, Lightspeed India Partners
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
Everything said about Y Combinator, oldest first
Aug 3, 2020 negative
Oct 17, 2022 positive
Ahluwalia's angel investments include Airmeet, inFeedo, Rocketium, and Affable
“We invested in Airmeet as the first check along with Axel. We invested in Infido along, you know, with Y Combinator, and then after a few months, Tiger Global came in along with Jungle Venture. Similarly, Rocketium, Affable, we invested in, and this journey ke…”
Jan 16, 2023
Feb 22, 2025 bullish
May 16, 2025 neutral
May 16, 2025 positive
Bhagia: Y Combinator is the only VC brand that outlived its founders
“I think everybody else, the, how much of an institution you build, if the people change the funds ranking changes. Like Kleiner Perkins used to be one of the top funds. They then went down, right? That cycle keeps repeating in the Valley as well by sees the on…”