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    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...
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  • Y combinator may refer to: Y Combinator, an American tech startup accelerator Y combinator (mathematics), a fixed-point combinator This disambiguation...
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  • Curry's paradoxical combinator Y, given by: 131  Y = λ f .   ( λ x . f   ( x   x ) )   ( λ x . f   ( x   x ) ) {\displaystyle Y=\lambda f.\ (\lambda...
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  • notable startups have completed the Y Combinator Accelerator program. Mike Isaac described Y Combinator as: "Y Combinator accepts batches of start-ups twice...
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    Sam Altman (category Y Combinator people)
    raising more than $30 million in venture capital. In 2011, Altman joined Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, and was its president from 2014 to 2019. Altman...
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  • Combinatory logic (redirect from Combinator)
    interesting combinator is the fixed point combinator or Y combinator, which can be used to implement recursion. S and K can be composed to produce combinators that...
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    but that approach did not gain traction. They also participated in Y Combinator's accelerator program while building out the first version of the platform...
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    led artificial intelligence efforts at Apple, served as a partner at Y Combinator, and is a notable technology investor in companies such as Uber, Instacart...
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    Michael Seibel (category Y Combinator people)
    1982) is a partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv/Twitch and Socialcam. He first joined Y Combinator in 2013, advising hundreds...
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    Jessica Livingston (category Y Combinator people)
    best known for being a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator. Livingston grew up in the Boston area, raised in large part by her father...
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    Garry Tan (category Y Combinator people)
    1981) is an American venture capitalist and executive who is the CEO of Y Combinator and a founder of Initialized Capital. He previously co-founded Posterous...
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    Peter Thiel (category Y Combinator people)
    investment committee chair, in 2012, and was a part-time partner at Y Combinator from 2015 to 2017. Thiel is a conservative libertarian who has made substantial...
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    Paul Graham (programmer) (category Y Combinator people)
    Yahoo! Store), co-founding the startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, a number of essays and books, and the media webpage Hacker News. He...
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  • co-authoring Etherpad, co-founding AppJet, and for his work as a partner in Y Combinator. Iba graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005...
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    Emmett Shear (category Y Combinator people)
    Seibel. Shear and Justin Kan have been part of Y Combinator's first class in 2005. As part of Y Combinator, the two built a calendar application called...
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  • Hacker News (category Y Combinator companies)
    entrepreneurship. It is run by the investment fund and startup incubator Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that...
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    studied under Michel Devoret. The company emerged from startup incubator Y Combinator in 2014 as a so-called "spaceshot" company. Later that year, Rigetti...
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    Justin Kan (category Y Combinator people)
    renamed to Stash in 2024. He was a partner at Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator. He gained widespread attention for his "lifecasting" experiment on Justin...
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    Paul Buchheit (category Y Combinator people)
    2010, Buchheit left Facebook to become a partner at the investment firm Y Combinator. From 2006 (when he started investing) until 2008, Buchheit invested...
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  • The SKI combinator calculus is a combinatory logic system and a computational system. It can be thought of as a computer programming language, though it...
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    Qasar Younis (category Y Combinator people)
    self-driving vehicles. Prior to Applied Intuition, he was the COO of Y Combinator during Sam Altman’s tenure as President. He was also the co-founder and...
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  • Y" YMCA, aka "the Y" YWCA, aka "the Y" Y (Cyrillic) y (IPA), the International Phonetic Alphabet letter for a close front rounded vowel Y combinator,...
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  • co-founder: Sam Altman, former president of the startup accelerator Y Combinator President and co-founder: Greg Brockman, former CTO, 3rd employee of...
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  • companies in its portfolio, and 66 startups through its funding of Y Combinator's Start Fund. The company invested $100 million in GitHub, which netted...
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  • as well as reduction in parental alcohol consumption. In May 2016, Y Combinator, an American company with the aim of providing seed funding for start-up...
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    after the lecture and he invited them to apply to his startup incubator Y Combinator. Huffman came up with their original idea, My Mobile Menu, which was...
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  • beer from 21st Amendment Brewery to a Y Combinator partner and was admitted to the summer of 2012 batch. Y Combinator helped Mehta raise $2.3 million in...
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    thus far and currently has a cash buffer of US$400 million. List of Y combinator startups Zomato Nykaa Singh, Rajiv (11 November 2021). "How Meesho's...
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  • Loopt (category Y Combinator companies)
    Twitter. The company was founded in 2005 and received initial funding from Y Combinator, and completed Series A and B financing led by Sequoia Capital and New...
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  • Webflow (category Y Combinator companies)
    company graduated from Y Combinator's startup accelerator in 2013. Webflow raised venture funding from Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Tim Draper, and other...
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