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| 2017 || June || Recognition || ''[[w:Forbes (magazine)|Forbes]]'' ranks [[w:Y Combinator (company)|YC]] one of two "Platinum Plus Tier U.S. Accelerators".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/06/07/best-accelerators-of-2017/#65ed870110cb|title=The Best Startup Accelerators Of 2017|work=Forbes}}</ref>
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| 1017 2017 || June 16 || Funding program || On a considered "world’s biggest startup demo day ever", as much as 1,584 companies complete [[w:Y Combinator (company)|YC]]’s online Startup School Founders Track program, a figure out of 2,820 startups accepted from the 13,321 companies that applied to [[w:Y Combinator (company)|YC]]’s 10-week program of one-on-one mentorship from past YC startup founders.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Constine |first1=Josh |title=1500+ startups graduate Y Combinator’s first online Startup School |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/16/startup-school/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || September 19 || Request for Startups || [[w:Y Combinator (company)|YC]] publishes its new Request for Education Startups, listing a few categories of education application, like process automation for operational efficiency, underserved markets (citing {{w|CodeHS}} as example), new approaches to old ideas, unusual business models, new school models (citing {{w|The Rumie Initiative}} as example), {{w|artificial intelligence}}, {{w|virtual reality}} and {{w|augmented reality}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Request for Education Startups |url=https://blog.ycombinator.com/request-for-education-startups/ |website=blog.ycombinator.com |accessdate=24 July 2019}}</ref>
