Y Combinator
Investor www.ycombinator.com ● Covered in 80 stories + Follow ✴ AI Graph Claim this firm
Y Combinator is tracked in TLDRocket’s investor dataset. Explore the recorded developments, relationships and supporting evidence below. Coverage reflects our monitored sources and may be incomplete.
Updated 23 October 2026
Signals
13 stories (+44%)
Media momentum
As of 4 Nov 2026 · Visible stories in the last 30 days, compared with the 30 days before.
13 sources
Source diversity
As of 4 Nov 2026 · Distinct publications behind this entity's visible coverage.
37 investments
Investment activity
As of 4 Nov 2026 · Source-backed invests-in relationships tracked from this investor.
Jun 2025 → Oct 2026
Coverage span
As of 4 Nov 2026 · First to most recent month of TLDRocket coverage of this entity.
Management records
updated 5 Aug 2026Observed in public listings; this is not a verified current management roster.
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Garry Tan
LinkedIn
President, CEO, and Group Partner
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Eric Bakan
Head of Data
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Steven Pham
Head Of Media
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Ryan Choi
Head of Post Batch Operations and Software
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Uzair Afzal
Partner, CFO
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Harj Taggar
Managing Partner
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Xiaolin Li
Partner, CFO
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Tayler Princeau
Executive Assistant
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Megan Ehrlich
Executive Assistant
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Lauren Field
Executive Assistant
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Kelley Tighe
Executive Assistant
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Renee Mars
Head of HR & Workplace
+ 6 more tracked
Portfolio
Nous Research HappyRobot River AI Scape HyperProbe Coasty Context.dev Agnost AI Adam Zeit AI AfterQuery LemonLime BillionToOne Naïve Hoplite Prized Traceforce TesterArmy Parsewise Drafted Intuned Rudus Transload Superset Hypercubic Hebbian Robotics Speko Keet Stoa Markets Skillsync
Latest developments
October 2026
Executive move: 10x Science & VS Code Executive move
Funding: Physical Intelligence & Ultra Funding
Funding: Nous Research & Y Combinator Funding
Funding: Hermes & Nous Research Funding
Partnership: Sona8 & Y Combinator Partnership
- Market development: Petrarch & LinkedIn
- Executive move: 10x Science
- Market development: Google & DeepMind
- Market development: Simantic & Neuralink
- Market development: Throxy
- Market development: Spacesheep
- Market development: Alter & Slack
- Market development: Consus & ChatGPT
- Market development: Dreamscale Labs
- Market development: Agent37 & OpenClaw
- Market development: Ultra & Physical Intelligence
- Funding: Nous Research & Hermes 4
- Market development: Sona8 & Boston Consulting Group
- Market development: Acely
September 2026
Funding: Firecrawl Inc. & Y Combinator Funding
Incident: Anthropic & Apollo Research Incident
Funding: AI Evaluator Forum (AEF) & Accenture Funding
Funding: Y Combinator & Zeit AI Funding
Funding: Zeit AI & ACE Ventures Funding
Funding: AfterQuery & Forbes Funding
- Market development: Magnitude & llama.cpp
- Market development: Invertix & San Francisco program
- Market development: Firecrawl Inc.
- Incident: Hugging Face & Apollo Research
- Market development: Skillsync & Skillsync (https://skillsync.com)
- Funding: OpenAI
- Market development: Superhuman & Fathom
- Funding · 11 Sep 2026
- Funding: Zeit AI
- Funding: Zeit AI & Palantir
- Market development: RonanRx & OpenAI
- Funding: AfterQuery & Forbes
- Funding: AfterQuery
- Market development: Nori Robotics & Columbia University
August 2026
Funding: Hypercubic & Y Combinator Funding
Funding: Speko & Y Combinator Funding
Funding: Blacksmith & Blacksmith Software Inc. Funding
Funding: River AI & AMD Funding
Funding: Stoa Markets & Y Combinator Funding
Funding: Naïve & Naïve Inc. Funding
Funding: HappyRobot & Andreessen Horowitz Funding
Funding: HappyRobot & Y Combinator Funding
Product launch: Hoplite & HyperProbe Product launch
- Market development: Hebbian Robotics & Apache Airflow 3
- Market development: Salem Robotics & UT Austin
- Market development: Risklytics & Harvard
- Market development · 26 Aug 2026
- Market development: Vendo & Hacker News
- Market development: machine0 & MCP
- Market development: Hypercubic & Apple
- Market development: Speko
- Market development: Graphify & Graphify Labs
- Market development: Goldman Sachs & OpenAI
- Funding: Blacksmith Software Inc.
- Funding: River AI & NVIDIA
- Market development: Keet & Apple TestFlight
- Market development: Stoa Markets & Stoa
- Funding: Naïve Inc. & SiliconANGLE
- Product launch: HyperProbe & Cursor
- Market development: LemonLime
- Market development: EdotEnv
- Funding: HappyRobot & DHL
- Market development: QM & MIT
- Product launch: Hoplite & AWS
- Model release: Microsoft & Anthropic
Relationships
Investment & ownership
- Invests in Zeit AI · 2 sources
- Invests in Scape · 1 source
- Invests in Graphify Labs · 1 source
- Invests in HappyRobot · 1 source
- Invests in LemonLime · 1 source
- Invests in Prized · 1 source
- Invests in Coasty · 1 source
- Invests in TesterArmy · 1 source
Products & technology
- Develops QM · 1 source