Sentences with phrase «y combinator»

Neither GM nor Y Combinator immediately returned request for comment.

Since graduating the Y Combinator Winter 2016 class, Lattice serves 250 + customers such as Birchbox, Coinbase and Glossier.

Rocketrip has received previous funding from Genacast Ventures, Y Combinator, and angel investors.

Ali Vahabzadeh, founder of Chariot, went through Y Combinator and was acquired by Ford.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Y Combinator's Sam Altman fielded calls to boot Trump - ally Peter Thiel from their boards.

The sum GM is paying makes Cruise the largest exit for a startup from Y Combinator, the well - known Silicon Valley incubator.

The bulk of the session, in which Musk shared the stage with Y Combinator head Sam Altman, was far - ranging and bizarre, twisting from nuclear fusion versus fission to Mars colonization.

The startup is advised by numerous, well - known people in and out of Silicon Valley, including the President of Y Combinator, Sam Altman, the CTO of Stripe, Greg Brockman and many more.

Paul Graham, who founded an influential start - up incubator, Y Combinator, posted two articles about how the science behind Mr. Damore's memo was accurate.

Since Y Combinator is such an elite tech accelerator that moves at lightening speed, these CEOs have learned a thing or two about getting stuff done efficiently.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Bain Capital Ventures co-led the round, with participation from several other investors, including Y Combinator (YC).

Use these productivity hacks from Y Combinator CEOs to help you be more efficient and get more out of your day.

At Y Combinator's fourth Female Founders Conference in San Francisco last week, Lee talked about that HBR study and the bias she sees every day.

The money comes courtesy of a number of well - known Silicon Valley investors, including firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, and individual investors like Y Combinator President Sam Altman (also a board member) and SV Angel's Ron Conway.

Launched with $ 5 million in federal research funds, it has since raised more money from such private sources as Mithril Capital Management and Y Combinator.

I've spent 10 years of my career in startups: did Y Combinator in Summer 2012 with a social referrals startup I founded, called Referly.

If you've ever watched Justin Kan's Snapchat stories (partner at Y Combinator), he likes to say, «Fitness is the first step to greatness.»

To that end, I spoke with half a dozen CEOs from various Y Combinator batches, to get tips on how to be more productive.

Foreman knew that joining Y Combinator could make an entrepreneur's career.

Backing the company's plan are a host of American and international investors including: Western Technology Investment, Social Capital, Vy Capital, Picus Capital, Ace & Company, Lynett Capital Partners, Zeno Ventures, Michael Seibel (CEO of Y Combinator Core), Gabriel Hammond and a number of funds & angels.

After laying the groundwork for their company, the founders moved to the Bay Area from Toronto in 2010 to join Y Combinator, a business incubator.

With $ 350K left of the $ 1 Million raised during Y Combinator, we had enough money to get another project off the ground.

Leading seed investors in companies with at least one female founder include Y Combinator with 28, SOSV with 10 and BBG Ventures and Innovation Works at five investments each.

Willett Advisors, the investment arm for the personal and philanthropic assets of Michael Bloomberg, the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, is an investor in Y Combinator startups.

According to Crunchbase, the company raised $ 35.7 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, Tencent Holdings, Baseline Ventures, Floodgate, Felicis, Ron Conway and Y Combinator.

Founded in 2012, Whirlscape has been supported by Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator, the Creative Destruction Lab, and UTEST, the MaRS Innovation and University of Toronto accelerator program for early - stage technologies.

The Toronto - based company's backers include Canadian venture capital firm BDC Venture Capital, U.S. - based FundersClub and Y Combinator, and a dozen angel investors.

Y Combinator themselves ask companies to make a decision on the day they get their offer.

It recently went through the startup accelerator Y Combinator, moved back to New York from Silicon Valley, and raised over $ 9 million in May, bringing its total funding to $ 10.3 million.

Chesky and his co-founders» first «sources» were their earliest advisers, tech entrepreneur Michael Seibel and Y Combinator's Graham.

In total, the Y Combinator startup has raised $ 12.8 million from investors.

Data was not available directly from AngelPad, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Capital Factory, Launchpad LA, and Y Combinator, so the researchers reconstructed their information using a combination of publicly available data and proprietary databases.

There's even one angel team, Mixin Capital, that was started by the Y Combinator alums who sold Zenter to Google and invests almost exclusively in Y Combinator startups.

Its sponsors, including heavy hitters like Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia and Y Combinator, pay $ 4,000 a year and get access to the results.

At the same time, Y Combinator founder and Airbnb investor Paul Graham attacked the dramatic news coverage, calling it «bullshit.»

The new favorite tool of Silicon Valley's early - stage investors — Product Hunt — plans to announce Thursday that it has been accepted into Y Combinator's summer 2014 batch.

Thanks to excellent advice and coaching available from the likes of Nivi and Naval, Fred, Brad, TechStars, Y Combinator, and the like, entrepreneurs are learning how to effectively address the traditional areas of investor concern over risk.

There's also increasing collaboration between angels, through organizations like AngelList and the Angel Forum as well as Y Combinator and the many startup camp copycats it's inspired.

Investor Y Combinator (recently in the news for taking an investment from Sequoia Capital) posted an advisory tonight that their competitors are using exploding term sheets, and suggesting companies ignore them.

Horowitz made the comments Thursday during a live chat hosted by Y Combinator - backed online community Product Hunt.

We have high regard for Y Combinator, TechStars and other accelerator programs.

In particular, competitors (which are mainly TechStars and DreamIT, although they aren't mentioned) are giving exploding term sheets that expire prior to Y Combinator getting a look at the companies.

Y Combinator was able to groom so many successful startups that they could virtually assure later venture capital investments to their graduates.

So do many of Thiel's friends and colleagues, like Elon Musk and Y Combinator head Sam Altman.

«I'm fairly confident that at some point in the future, as technology continues to eliminate traditional jobs and massive new wealth gets created, we're going to see some version of this at a national scale,» wrote Y Combinator president Sam Altman in January.

Last, and perhaps most important, Y Combinator knows what it wants to achieve with the pilot.

And it's near Y Combinator, which is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Along with Y Combinator founder Sam Altman, he also created OpenAI, a non-profit aimed at ensuring that the technology is used for good.

In January, Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator said it was planning to conduct a study about basic income.

Y Combinator is certainly not the first to study basic income, and since it's just starting a pilot, we don't yet know how its work will lead to new or different findings than those uncovered by experiments in other places and times, such as those in Canada, the U.S., and India.