Y Combinator, every mention
61 scenes, the whole family · ← back to Y Combinator
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Siddhartha Ahluwalia 83Viral Bajaria 17Sharath Narayana 6Sheel Mohnot 4Vidit Aatrey 3Varun Mayya 3Mehul Nariyawala 3Matt MacInnis 3Kushal Bhagia 3Karthik Chakkarapani 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
How Tanay Tandon is Building a $100 Billion Healthcare AI Company
- ▶ 19:01 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Went to YC and, you know, then, you know, got some of the legendary investors on your cap table. 2 times in the scene
ChatGPT Killed My $50M ARR Business Overnight | Swapnil Jain Observe Al
- ▶ 23:53 unnamed speaker I think it was, it was the fact that we got accepted to YC. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:21 unnamed speaker During your journey, where you come from, you mentioned you were an underdog founder, less confident, but suddenly YC happened, and then you were able to raise from tier one VCs one after another. 3 times in the scene
And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
- ▶ 13:03 Mehul Nariyawala And so, so like the motto, one of the things we learned at YC
- ▶ 32:18 Mehul Nariyawala There was like, I think, media YC startup day, and one of the startups was Stripe, so we ended up there, and, uh, he, uh, John Collison was actually there, and, and we just ended up showing you a demo, and then he helped us get into YC. 2 times in the scene
How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
- ▶ 0:01 unnamed speaker I'm on the Board of White Commodaire.
Why Construction still Runs on Spreadsheets (And How AI Fixes It) | Sneha & Graham, Merlin AI
- ▶ 0:28 Siddhartha Ahluwalia One of the best companies in the YC batch.
- ▶ 1:48 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, post neon, uh, you folks were one of, you know, the best companies in the YC batch. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:56 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And you went to, to YC, right? 7 times in the scene
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- ▶ 1:11:15 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Because you can remain on Raymond, what YC says, only for such, such a short period of time.
Which AI Model are companies actually Paying For in 2026? | Rohit Agarwal, Portkey
- ▶ 10:39 Rohit Agarwal So there are like open source players, YC startups. 2 times in the scene
What Mistake Founders Make With A-Players | Matt MacInnis | COO Rippling
- ▶ 21:47 Matt MacInnis I think YC does a good job of trying to beat this into people's heads and 3 times in the scene
Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
- ▶ 3:40 unnamed speaker Classic YC, uh, kind of a playbook, and they will create tremendous value.
3 Steps on How Large Companies Decide to Buy From a Startup or Not | CIO Karthik Chakkarapani
- ▶ 13:40 Karthik Chakkarapani So we're trying to come with a standard set of things because we have some vendors like coming from Y Combinator kind of things.
- ▶ 28:40 Karthik Chakkarapani And I said, hey, these, these templates are looking more like Y Combinator templates, right? 2 times in the scene
Why Finding Your ‘Rapido Bet’ and Surviving Your ‘Meesho Miss is the Best Job | Pratik & Brij
- ▶ 52:28 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Yes sir, but you are describing post YC, ah, with the companies that are part of the YC batch. 3 times in the scene
How to Think Like a CEO & Build Like a Fighter | Shiv Shivakumar, Ex-CEO Nokia & Pepsico
- ▶ 52:48 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I think YC quoted this number, so maybe global number.
6sense Did What Google Couldn’t : Targeting Companies, Not People | Viral Bajaria
- ▶ 0:03 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You were part of one of the earliest YC batches. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:10 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And you were part of one of the earliest YC batches. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:13 Viral Bajaria And then he says like, have you applied to YC? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:56 Viral Bajaria And, uh, so we all quit jobs because you have to go three months of YC full rigor. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:32 Viral Bajaria We got the YC funding. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:13 Viral Bajaria Um, I, in the beginning, I was doing more in YC companies, because that's what was, was what my access was, and I did it for fun. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:40 Viral Bajaria I think information spread and other things have become very, like when I went through YC, there were hardly any Indian companies.
How to Build a Startup in 2025? | Shikhil, Co-Founder Astra Security
- ▶ 4:15 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And this is like, this content is inspired by YC, right?
Paras Chopra: How To Build A Successful Startup In India | Sold Wingify For $200 Million
- ▶ 13:18 Paras Chopra I mean, this is also repeating what Paul Graham's and Y Combinator's mantra is, right?
What's Happening To VC In India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha
- ▶ 0:21 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Why isn't India able to produce something like YC? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:34 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And another area, uh, you know, that India gets contested on and widely discussed is, uh, why, why isn't India able to produce something like YC? 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:05 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Zepto, the first backer was YC and the second backer was next. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:22 Kushal Bhagia I'm probably still say, I see the, I've just seen nobody. 2 times in the scene
10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
- ▶ 2:25 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So, so if you can compare podcasts by VC firms globally, the largest globally is Y Combinator. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:33 Avnish Bajaj Classic YC, uh, kind of a playbook, and they will create tremendous value.
2X SaaS Founder: How To Sell Global Tech Products From India | Sharath Narayana | Neon Show
- ▶ 13:39 Sharath Narayana Um, and the move to the U S became almost necessary because we applied to YC, um, in Jan, no, I think we applied to YC in November.
- ▶ 15:25 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And this is pre after YC or pre YC? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:38 Sharath Narayana And in 2018, when we were building Observe, uh, you saying that your Nexus funded YC attracting talent in India was a lot more easier. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:24 Sharath Narayana I think because we had gotten into Y Combinator. 3 times in the scene
$10 Trillion Goal, Reverse Brain Drain & IPO Market I Nansi & Siddhartha On India’s Bright Future
- ▶ 29:06 Siddhartha (Siddharth) Incubated by accelerators like Y Combinator.
Entrepreneur First’s Founder On Indian Talent, AI Startups, Selling SaaS Globally And Silicon Valley
- ▶ 2:23 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Because we have seen, right, the mecca of startups, that is Y Combinator, just started in 2008.
- ▶ 16:39 Matt Clifford You can do what YC's done and they've done it really well, which is where you just make, you have one location and the batches get bigger and bigger. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:17 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Why she still doesn't have an India office.
Dear Indians, Watch This Before Moving To America - Varun Mayya’s Brutally Honest Career Advice
- ▶ 0:02 Varun Mayya My brother got into YC and he went to the U.S.
- ▶ 2:06 Varun Mayya My brother got into YC and he went to the US, uh, and 2 times in the scene
Breaking Down India's B2B Digital Payment Ecosystem with Cashfree CEO Akash Sinha
- ▶ 18:14 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I think you were one of the first companies to be selected along with Razorpay in the initial batches of YC from India. 8 times in the scene
The story behind Zepto w/ Founder, Aadit Palicha
- ▶ 0:33 Aadit Palicha And then fifty million led by Gladebrook, and then a hundred million led by Y Combinator.
- ▶ 10:21 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And when did Y Combinator and Nexus happen for you? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:30 Aadit Palicha And we had, you know, a couple of folks that we were talking to, but Y Combinator Continuity reached out.
5 Most Important Decisions of Our Lives | Journey of Siddhartha & Nansi, Founders, 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 19:50 Siddhartha Ahluwalia We invested in Infido along, you know, with Y Combinator, and then after a few months, Tiger Global came in along with Jungle Venture.
How A 23 year Old Created A $8M Yearly Revenue Content Marketplace Business ft. Anirudh Singla
- ▶ 8:54 Anirudh Singla And at that time, we got a call from Y Combinator.
Supermorpheus, India’s first community driven fund ft. Sameer Guglani
- ▶ 12:26 Sameer Guglani And also I think around that time, or maybe a little before that, we also became aware of Y Combinator and Techstars, which were doing a similar job in the US.
The rise of crypto with 1.5 cr+ Indian investors ft. Ashish Singhal, Founder, Coinswitch
- ▶ 39:15 Ashish Singhal You know, this was something that I was ready for, uh, reading a lot of about, uh, you know, startup school from Y Combinator, uh, Paul Graham, uh, you know, essays and, and, uh, videos have always taught me, uh, to create something…
@firstcheque7252 CEO on Early Stage Investing and investments from founders ft. Kushal Bhagia
- ▶ 31:33 Kushal Bhagia Uh, if you look at YC or Techstars or any other pre-seed program or pre-seed fund, right?
Fampay Founder on Fintech for GenZ and Funding ft. Sambhav Jain | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 13:32 Sambhav Jain And we applied to Y Combinator while we were in our final semester through our hostel rooms.
- ▶ 13:44 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, after YC or before YC? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:45 Sambhav Jain So right after we went in, like we got into YC, um, the very next day they reached out to us just to have a casual conversation.
Vishesh Rajaram, Speciale Invest on investing in seed-stage deep tech startups
- ▶ 11:33 Vishesh Rajaram They're a YC company.
Nikhil Kapur, STRIVE Ventures on different SaaS models in Asia
- ▶ 27:09 Nikhil Kapur So anyway, like our journey started with Healand, and then I led an investment into a Y Combinator-backed company called SalesVale, which is a sales AI company, um, which is, um, sort of building this, uh, conversational intelligence…
Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures on his journey from Fintech Entrepreneur to Fintech VC
- ▶ 23:35 Sheel Mohnot You know, you could literally just show up at YC demo day, invest in a few companies and have a good chance of success. 4 times in the scene
Episode 55 | Inside the mind of Vidit Aatrey, Founder & CEO, Meesho
- ▶ 5:42 Vidit Aatrey We raised an angel round, went to YC.
- ▶ 38:02 Vidit Aatrey It's one of them have been like mentors in the Valley because we were at YC, which was also great. 2 times in the scene
Episode 53 | Hemant Mohapatra, Partner, Lightspeed India Partners
- ▶ 20:22 unnamed speaker We are, um, we are one of the earliest investors, or the earliest investor in, um, OKCredit, uh, which is also a YC funded company, which is targeting the SME retail market in, in India.
@unacademy founder on Building a 3 Billion Edtech Giant ft. Gaurav Munjal
- ▶ 13:28 Gaurav Munjal There is a, there is a book called Startup Playbook by Sam Altman of Fi Combinator. 2 times in the scene