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title: "Y Combinator: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Y Combinator, LLC (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm launched in March 2005 which has been used to launch more than 5,000 companies. com share of a batch first fell below half in Summer 2022."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-y-combinator
type: Organization
wikidata: Q2616400
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator
website: http://www.ycombinator.com
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Y Combinator

> Y Combinator, LLC (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm launched in March 2005 which has been used to launch more than 5,000 companies. com share of a batch first fell below half in Summer 2022.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2005-03-01
- Headquarters: Mountain View
- Status: private
- Website: http://www.ycombinator.com
- Industries: investment, venture capital

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/ycombinator
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/y-combinator
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcefcZRL2oaA_uBNeo5UOWg
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YCombinator

## Key people

- Trevor Blackwell, founder (Canadian programmer)
- Jessica Livingston, founder (American businesswoman and writer)
- Robert Tappan Morris, founder (American computer scientist; creator of Morris Worm; associate professor at MIT)
- Paul Graham, founder (English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist)
- Garry Tan, chair (Venture capitalist), since 2023-01-01
- Paul Graham, director (English-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist)
- Eric Migicovsky (Canadian engineer and businessman)

## Products

- venture capital

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Y Combinator, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-y-combinator#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2616400, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator

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