Y Combinator

APRIL 11, 2024

Last month, Boom became the first independent company to develop a supersonic jet.  Here’s Most people know YC for funding software companies. But some of our most successful companies are the ones doing incredible things in the real world — the hard tech companies.

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FundersClub

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds and events: GitLab (NASDAQ: GTLB), a SaaS platform for DevOps, completed a successful public listing on October 14, 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Late last year, Solugen , a startup using synthetic biology to take hydrocarbons out of the chemicals industry, decided against pursuing a new round of funding that would have valued the company at over $1 billion, TechCrunch has learned. Chemicals are everywhere and they’re a huge business.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 11, 2023

YC has now funded over 500 bio and healthcare companies, and they’ve devoted themselves to solving some of the world’s most pressing problems. The last two batches at YC were some of the absolute strongest we've ever seen, in large part because of the healthcare and bio founders we had the privilege of working with.

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Y Combinator

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

We’re excited to share the 2022 YC Top Companies. In addition to the list of top companies, we also launched the YC Breakthrough Companies list to highlight the fast-growing companies that have received between $15M-$300M from YC. 99 new companies joined the list since our last update in July 2021.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

YC Companies: Cambio , PowerX , Greenwork , Kapacity.io , Moneytree , Bright Energy Management When we electrify our major machines – such as buildings and vehicles – we halve our total energy use but increase the amount of electricity we use by roughly 3x. EVs are now over 5% of new US sales and growing 60% year over year.

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