Y Combinator

These 21-year-old dropouts raised $2M to build Givefront, a fintech for nonprofits

Fintech /

The last decade is filled with examples of fintechs that have reshaped how U.S. businesses manage money. Brex simplified corporate cards. Ramp automated spend controls. Mercury rebuilt startup banking. But this wave of financial innovation has largely skipped one major part of the economy: nonprofits. Givefront, a YC-backed startup founded by 21-year-old Harvard dropout Matt […]

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Meesho’s $606M IPO pops as enthusiasm for India’s e-commerce startups rises

Commerce /

Meesho, an Indian e-commerce marketplace, had a good first day as a public company, with its shares climbing as much as 46% from its issue price as investors jumped to grab a piece of the company built around small merchants and value-conscious consumers. The stock opened at ₹162.50, up from the issue price of ₹111,

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Boom Supersonic raises $300M to build natural gas turbines for Crusoe data centers

Transportation /

Aircraft startup Boom Supersonic said Tuesday it will start selling a version of its turbine engine as a stationary power plant, and that its first customer will be data center startup Crusoe. Crusoe will buy 29 of Boom’s 42-megawatt turbines for $1.25 billion to generate 1.21 gigawatts for its data centers. Boom said it will

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YC-backed Poly relaunches as a cloud-hosted file storage with AI search

Apps /

One of the most common use cases to have come out of new-age AI models is to power natural language search and find files and other information quicker and faster. There are already several companies that allow you to connect different services to search through data. Now, a startup called Poly is launching a service

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Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in

AI /

Two teenage founders walked into Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham’s backyard with an idea no one in agriculture seemed to want — an AI model to help design better pesticides. By the time they left, they had a new business model, a new company, and eventually, Graham’s backing. Now, that reimagined company — Bindwell —

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Willow’s voice keyboard lets you type across all your iOS apps — and actually edit what you said

Apps /

One of the most effective use cases to have emerged from modern AI models is their ability to understand the human voice better, which has led to more accurate dictation tools. One such Mac tool, Willow, is launching an iOS app to let users type with their voice across all apps. Similar to Wispr Flow,

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‘Chad: the Brainrot IDE’ is a new Y Combinator-backed product so wild, people thought it was fake

AI /

When former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt, someone from the audience asked him if HBO’s hit satire Silicon Valley would be revived. Costolo, who was a writer for the show, essentially answered no (at timestamp 38:17). While the writers talk about that regularly, he said, they don’t pursue it because today’s actual

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YC alum Adam raises $4.1M to turn viral text-to-3D tool into AI copilot

AI /

Adam, one of the most viral startups in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch, has raised a $4.1 million seed round to power its next steps, TechCrunch learned exclusively. After generating over 10 million social media impressions with the launch of its text-to-3D model app, the AI startup had its pick of investors. “We were getting

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FleetWorks raises $17M to match truckers with cargo faster

Fundraising /

The thousands of small trucking companies that help move goods around the United States have a fairly old-school way of doing things, according to Paul Singer. He would know — he left his product manager job at Uber Freight to start a company called FleetWorks, which he believes will modernize things. Created during Y Combinator’s

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