Y Combinator Funding

10 videos across 2 channels

YC funding and its evolving ecosystem blend hands-on accelerator support with practical AI tooling, from Startup School’s community-building encouragement to hands-on AI-native infrastructure playbooks. The highlighted videos explore how founders leverage mentorship, real-world product demos, and agent-driven architectures to scale startups, reveal what makes AI-powered ventures compelling, and offer concrete guidance for applying or building with YC’s framework.

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5 Papers That Show Where AI Research Is Heading Right Now

A panel-style session exploring the intersection of AI and biology, focusing on scaling laws, self-play for language mod

01:16:55
Fable is the most powerful AI you're allowed to use... thumbnail

Fable is the most powerful AI you're allowed to use...

The video analyzes Anthropic's new Claude Fable, questioning its legitimacy while comparing it to Opus and GPT 5, and ex

00:05:08
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Why Two IIT Engineers Turned Down $550K Jobs To Build A Startup

The interview follows Varun and his co-founder from their college-era experiments with ML to becoming YC-backed founders

00:24:29
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Inside YC's AI Playbook

The discussion explores turning a company into an AI-native organization by embedding a shared, AI-powered infrastructur

00:46:30
Why Good Companies Go Bad (And How to Stop It) thumbnail

Why Good Companies Go Bad (And How to Stop It)

Eric Ries argues that lasting companies must protect their mission through governance that prioritizes integrity and sta

00:50:04
How Razorpay Became India’s Largest Payments Company thumbnail

How Razorpay Became India’s Largest Payments Company

The interview with Harshil (Razorpay) covers the importance of trust in B2B, the early struggles of building a payments

00:31:34