Y Combinator’s Ankit Gupta faces fresh backlash as Trump officials weigh in on his controversial comments about H-1B hiring, American workers
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Y Combinator partner Gupta faces backlash over his H-1B hiring comments, sparking a debate over America First, DEI and immigrant workers
San Francisco-based startup Kita raised $4.5M in seed funding led by BoxGroup and Y Combinator to expand its AI-powered lending technology
Lemma raises $2.3 million to help companies detect and fix silent failures in AI agents running in production.
Discovered Materials recently closed a $9M seed round to use AI agents to build efficient integrated circuits.
Y Combinator-backed Stratum launches AI agents to help clear U.S. government backlogs involving permits, licenses, patents, and claims.
Sam Altman has sparked debate in the startup world after reportedly offering $2 million worth of OpenAI tokens to every startup in the current Y Combinator batch
YC W26 Demo Day highlights Indian American founders driving AI robotics startups with rapid revenue growth and global innovation
Over the past ten years, fintech startups have transformed how American businesses handle their finances
Letter AI has secured $10.6 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-driven platform
Knowlify, a Y Combinator S25 startup, has raised $3 million to transform the way people understand and engage with content
Human Behavior, a Y Combinator-backed startup, raised $5M seed funding to build an AI-driven analytics platform that uses session replays to reveal why users convert or churn.
AI continues to dominate the startup landscape as Y Combinator-backed ventures Stellon Labs, Frizzle, and OnDeck launch innovative solutions in edge AI, education, and video intelligence.
At the core of Vulcan’s innovation is what it calls AI legal cartography: intelligent maps of the entire American legal system
Rather than relying on legacy supply chains, it designs and operates factories running on software and automation end-to-end
Meteor, a new AI-native “agentic browser” from UW graduates, aims to automate online tasks, reducing tab overload and reshaping web interactions for AI-powered efficiency.
Golpo transforms written content into customizable, AI-generated explainer videos with realistic voiceovers, streamlining communication for training, education, and product demos.
CopyCat, part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 cohort, is an AI-powered RPA platform replacing legacy tools with smart browser agents for seamless web automation.
San Francisco-based startup Okibi is a web app that lets anyone create AI agents and workflow automations just by describing tasks in plain English
Wisp AI, a Y Combinator-backed startup, launches an AI-powered executive assistant to automate admin tasks and boost productivity for individuals and small teams.
Y Combinator-backed AI music editor Riff has officially launched on Tuesday. Riff, which describes itself as “cursor for music,” uses artificial intelligence to make music creation easier
Finlens, a Y Combinator and Accel-backed AI pilot for accounting, has been launched.
Edgedive pulls scattered customer feedback into one place, connects it with product and CRM data, and delivers actionable insights so teams can respond faster and smarter.
Orange Slice uses AI agents and custom data scraping to find high-intent prospects, helping sales teams connect with ready-to-buy customers while they sleep.
Apolink, founded by 19-year-old Onkar Singh Batra, is building a real-time connectivity network to provide 24/7 links for LEO satellites worldwide.

