imbaresearchlabs·Oct 29Y Combinator’s Winter 2027 Requests for Startups: The Shift from Bits to Atoms11 high-conviction startup ideas YC wants to fund, from domestic robotics supply chains to AI for city halls and the physical AI buildout
web2 boomer·Oct 29The Company is the Loop: Building an AI-first CompanyThe key competitive advantage in the age of abundant cognition is how quickly a company can learn.A response icon1A response icon1
zkiihne·Oct 27Launching RysticYesterday Evan Whitehouse and I publicly launched Rystic on Y Combinator. My Evan and I met playing Magic a decade ago. Our first time…A response icon1A response icon1
Talal Ahmad Gondal·Oct 20What Is a Forward Deployed Investor?I invest time and judgment, not cash, and earn ownership through the work.A response icon1A response icon1
Ambarish G K·Oct 13A Night at YC with Pi: What’s Working in Robotics Right NowWhat I took from Quan Vuong’s fireside chat on robot learning, deployment, and where builders can contribute.A response icon1A response icon1
DhanushKumar·Oct 10QM: Inside the Multiplayer Agent Harness Built for Organizational AIMost AI agents today are still designed around a surprisingly simple mental model: one user, one assistant, one conversation, one set of…A response icon3A response icon3
Borys Musielak·Oct 5The hidden CEE founders of Y Combinator, and who funds themYC’s directory sees 30 startups from Central & Eastern Europe, but counting founders, there are 155. SMOK is #1 in CEE in terms of backing…