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Y Combinator
32 published events · on the wire since March 2026
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Infrastructure
Meteoric reports artificial-cloud test for solar-farm drone concept
Meteoric, a Y Combinator-backed startup, says it has a working prototype that dissipated an artificial cloud by 13% in cloud-chamber tests. The company plans autonomous drones that would fly within low- and mid-altitude clouds near solar farms and mechanically alter water droplets without chemicals.…
Chronological record
Every published event attached to Y Combinator, newest first.
August 2026 6 events
- In AI-obsessed Silicon Valley, live commerce platform Whatnot just notched a new funding round valuing it at $20 billion
- This YC startup raised $5 million for a personal assistant to help you stay on top of your text messages
- While one American company runs half a million driverless rides a week using cameras, lidar and radar together, the other has logged 14 crashes in about 800,000 miles of robotaxi service with a paid human sitting in the front seat
- HappyRobot raises $150m Series C to put AI agents to work across the enterprise
- Robinhood is launching a publicly traded fund that invests in Y Combinator startups. Anyone can buy shares.
- Y Combinator Open-Sources QM, the AI Agent Harness It Uses to Run Itself
July 2026 4 events
- Y Combinator's bet on killing tokenmaxxing just landed a $13.5M seed round as corporate America calls time on AI waste
- Y Combinator-backed Tornyol builds sonar mosquito-hunting microdrones
- MoonPay Acquires Glide in Sixth Deal Announcement of 2026
- Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C
June 2026 2 events
May 2026 8 events
- Corgi announces $106M raise at $2.6B valuation
- Triomics nabs $22M to bring oncology-specific AI to cancer centers
- Human Archive taps Indias gig economy to collect data for physical AI
- Status AI raises $17M for gamified social media network
- Stilta raises $10.5M seed from a16z and YC for legal tech
- Fintech startup Parker files for bankruptcy
- Welcome to the Great American Satellite Age
- Y Combinator pivots toward hard tech in Summer 2026 Request for Startups
April 2026 8 events
- Silicon Valley-backed political group California Renewal seeks $100M to promote moderate policies
- UK launches $675 million sovereign AI fund to invest in domestic startups
- Y Combinator warns of AI funding concentration among large players
- Y Combinator severs ties with Delve startup amid escalating controversy
- Y Combinator severs ties with startup Delve amid fraud allegations
- Mark Zuckerberg Returns to Writing Code After Two Decades, Submits Diffs and Uses Claude Code Heavily
- Y Combinator cuts ties with Delve amid fraud allegations
- Supabase in Talks to Raise $500 Million at $10 Billion Valuation, Led by Singapore's GIC