Tributi joins Y Combinator in a quest to be Latin America’s TurboTax

EXCLUSIVE: We’re all in tax mode here in the U.S. (or at least we should be). Although there are countless software tools available out here to help with this tedious task, other countries are lagging behind. In Latin America, for example, only about eight percent of individuals file their taxes due to the high costs, […]

Y Combinator on 2018 trends and growing your startup after the seed stage

Twice a year, the crème de la crème of Silicon Valley flocks to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View to listen to 100 or so startups deliver carefully curated pitches at the widely popular Y Combinator (YC) Demo Days. To select the batches, the accelerator program reviews countless applications from various sectors and countries. According […]

Y Combinator loses first COO Qasar Younis after 2 years

Former Y Combinator partner and chief operating officer Qasar Younis has left the company to work “on something new,” according to the departing executive’s personal site and Facebook account. Younis first participated in the accelerator in 2010 as an entrepreneur. Three years later, he joined Y Combinator as an investor after selling his company, TalkBin, to Google. Y Combinator president Sam […]

Y Combinator opens registration for its free Startup School online course

Y Combinator is making its Startup School event available to more people through the form of a massively open online course (MOOC). Starting today, you can register for a spot to watch lectures from a variety of industry leaders and entrepreneurs that the startup program has lined up to guest lecture during the duration of […]