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Lucis’ expansion is a masterclass in ambition. It shows what’s possible when passion meets execution. This team is relentless! If you live in London, do check them out!

Tools like Lovable and Replit gave everyone superpowers to build apps. But building secure internal tools that talk to other software? Still a pain. Enter Vybe (YC X25): the Lovable for internal apps. I was blown away by how easy it is to build with it. Congrats Quang HOANG and

Imagine building a predictive model... just by writing a prompt. Sounds like science fiction? It’s not. That’s exactly what Plexe AI has been building over the past few months. Now it's live and it works! Huge congrats to Vaibhav Dubey and Marcello De Bernardi 💥

Bramante Biologics is one of the most ambitious projects I’ve had the chance to work with. Their vision for biomanufacturing, using modular container factories to produce drugs, has the potential to make drug production 10x faster and dramatically boost our resilience. Congrats

Bottom quartile investing at YC demo day is better than top quartile venture capital investing

Web Bench is a new dataset to evaluate web browsing agents that consists of 5,750 tasks on 452 different websites, with 2,454 tasks being open sourced.

Introducing /search - the simplest way for agents and devs to discover the web 👀 Our #1 most requested endpoint is finally here. Search the web AND scrape all results in an LLM-ready format with one API call. Now live on our API, MCP, and all integrations 🔥

Congrats to the 141 new startups that are presenting today at YC Alumni Demo Day. This is our first spring batch ever, and the startups are growing faster than ever. This time the batch on average grew revenue by 12% per week— 4th batch in a row growing >10%/week!

YC is coming to Paris on July 7th! I'll be joined by the incredible Solomon Hykes (Docker, Dagger), Paul Copplestone - e/postgres (Supabase) and Tom Blomfield (YC, Monzo)! If you're a student/recent grad interested in startups, join us for founder stories & startup advice! Big thanks to Unaite for

More than anyone else, YC and Paul Graham made starting a company legible to me and my cofounders. Was an honor to sit down with Garry Tan and the latest batch!

Dalton + PB is going to be a formidable combination. Each of them would be the smartest partner at a normal VC firm.

Dalton interviewed us at Algolia for YC W14, but that was just the beginning. He supported me as a first-time founder, and again when I joined YC as a new partner. I've learned so much from you Dalton Caldwell! I can't thank you enough! Congrats on this new chapter!!!

Andrej Karpathy's (Andrej Karpathy) keynote yesterday at AI Startup School in San Francisco.

Congrats to the team @LanceDB on their $30M Series A! LanceDB gives AI teams a single source of truth for all of their AI data and workloads, enabling them to move fast from idea to petabyte-scale production. lancedb.com/blog/series-a-…

We finally hit 500k ARR. Then decided to bet our entire company on a new product. Launching Helicone AI Gateway 🚀 (Public Beta!) 1 API. 100+ models. 100x faster. We believe we’ve built the new standard for LLM routing. In Rust. Fully open-sourced. 1 min to set up.

🚀 Just 10 days to go until YC in Paris on July 7th! I'll be joined by the incredible Solomon Hykes (Docker, Dagger), Paul Copplestone - e/postgres (Supabase) and Tom Blomfield (YC, Monzo) to talk all things startups — stories, lessons, and advice. 🎓 If you’re a student or recent grad interested in

Got tired of explaining my entire context I was working on to Claude like it's a goldfish with amnesia every time I opened a new discussion. So we built Claude Code sessions that persist in Depot. Turns out when AI remembers everything across machines and teammates, some wild

Still buzzing from the Y Combinator event we hosted in one of Paris’ most iconic venues. So many future founders in the room! Huge thanks to Solomon Hykes, Paul Copplestone - e/postgres, and Tom Blomfield for sharing their stories, and to Unaite for helping make it all happen! 📍La Sorbonne