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Startups Weekly: Let’s see what those Y Combinator kids have been up to this time

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Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to receive the Startups Weekly newsletter in your inboxes. It’s the most wonderful tiiiiiiime of the yeaaaaaaar … That’s right, we’re back with all the you-can’t-miss companies from the current batch of Y Combinator startups. … Read more

Y Combinator wants 100 times more MRI scans

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Leveraging resources such as virtual data rooms and shared labs makes it easier for biotech startups to grow. This is good news: We need more companies attacking cancer from novel angles, including AI-enabled early detection. And who knows, maybe one of these will become a trillion-dollar company? — Anna Scaling early cancer detection Y Combinator’s … Read more

Y Combinator President Garry Tan publishes a menacing tweet before deleting it, apologizing: “Die slow motherf*ckers”

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Garry Tan, whose success in Silicon Valley has likely inspired many of the founders he mentors, is once again attracting attention for his posts on the social platform X. On Friday night, the Y Combinator president, investor, and former entrepreneur, published a post that might have prompted some to wonder if his X account was … Read more

How Inversion Art is trying to become the Y Combinator of the arts world

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For many startups, getting a spot in an accelerator program like Y Combinator or TechStars is like winning the golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Accelerators offer a wealth of opportunities that can make the difference between a great idea that doesn’t achieve its potential and one that leads to an IPO. We’re accustomed … Read more

Y Combinator: A program so good, these founders did it twice

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Parker Conrad could also be greatest often known as the founding father of each Zenefits and Rippling, however he’s additionally arguably the best-known founder to have gone by Y Combinator’s accelerator program twice. After all, he’s not the one one to undergo this system twice; some founders have even gone by 3 times. Y Combinator … Read more

Y Combinator Demo Day, sensible chastity cage hacked, and the feds examine Tesla

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Hey, pretty folks — it’s that point of week once more: Week in Assessment (WiR) time. For these unfamiliar, WiR is TechCrunch’s common publication that recaps the foremost occasions in tech over the previous few days. If you happen to’ve been too busy to maintain tabs on latest happenings, don’t panic. WiR is right here … Read more