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Y Combinator

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166 articles decelerating

Y Combinator has appeared in 166 articles since 2015-01. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 9 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside TechCrunch, Sam Altman, Garry Tan, Y Combinator's.

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Coverage Timeline

2025-10-03
Bloomberg 8 related

Uber acquires Belgium-based data labeling startup Segments.ai to expand its lidar data labeling capabilities; its founders and staff will join Uber AI Solutions

For nearly a decade, the team that built Uber AI Solutions have been at the frontier … Otto Debals : Exciting news: Segments.ai has been acquired by Uber 🔥  —  We started Segments.ai in 2020, became t...

2023-06-27
TechCrunch 4 related

Thomson Reuters agrees to acquire YC-backed Casetext, which builds AI-powered workflows and tools for lawyers, for $650M in cash, expected to close in H2 2023

Thomson Reuters has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Casetext, a Y Combinator-backed legal tech startup.

2018-03-26
Recode 1 related

How Sequoia, Accel, and Y Combinator ended up with their current stakes in Dropbox; source: YC sold about 50% of its holdings around the time of the Series B

Y Combinator sold about half of its Dropbox position a few years ago — Sequoia made it a priority to cut Accel into the Series A https://www.recode.net/... pic.twitter.com/1yYw4cxrld

2016-12-07
Bloomberg 40 related

Sources: Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky to rejoin Y Combinator as partner; Fitbit has sent job offers to 40% of Pebble staff

Pebble CEO Migicovsky said planning to join Y Combinator  —  Fitbit Inc., the fitness band maker, is close to buying software assets from struggling smartwatch startup …

2016-10-17
TechCrunch 2 related

Cisco buys Y Combinator alumnus meeting app Worklife for an undisclosed sum, plans to continue to provide it as a free standalone service

Ron Miller / TechCrunch :

2016-07-15
TechCrunch 10 related

Atlassian acquires online service tracker StatusPage, says it will remain a standalone product; pricing, starting at $29/month, will remain the same

Atlassian today announced that it has acquired StatusPage, a Y Combinator-incubated service that allows online businesses to keep …

2016-02-11
TechCrunch 3 related

Y Combinator Absorbs Edtech Accelerator Imagine K12, Creating Specialized Vertical

We are excited to announce that Imagine K12 … Erin Hobey / Crowdfund Insider : Y Combinator + Imagine K12: Together ‘Making Something People Want’ Betsy Corcoran / EdSurge : Imagine K12 Merges with Y ...

2015-02-12
TechCrunch 7 related

Microsoft courts Silicon Valley with Azure's $500K credit for Y Combinator startups to compete with Amazon's $100K AWS offering

Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley  —  Y Combinator and Microsoft announced a program this week that will pour free access to the Azure cloud computing platform onto …

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Y Combinator has appeared in 141 Techmeme articles since February 2015. The biggest stories include SVB draws support from 300+ VC firms, including General Catalyst, while 1,200+ founders... and Sources: Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky to rejoin Y Combinator as partner; Fitbit has sent.... Frequently covered alongside TechCrunch, Sam Altman, Garry Tan, Josh Constine, and Peter Thiel. Coverage has shifted toward consumer, regulation themes and away from developer, safety.

Key Moments

2024Q3safety -33pts; funding +100pts
2024Q4enterprise +100pts; developer +100pts
2025Q2enterprise -100pts; safety +100pts; developer -100pts

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