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| 2005 || March 1 || || {{w|Y Combinator}} is founded by [[w:Paul Graham (computer programmer)|Paul Graham]], {{w|Jessica Livingston}}, {{w|Trevor Blackwell}} and {{w|Robert Tappan Morris}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://old.ycombinator.com/start.html|first=Paul |last=Graham|title=How Y Combinator Started|work=Y Combinator|date=March 15, 2012|accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref>.<ref name="techcrunch">{{cite web |title=Y Combinator |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/y-combinator#section-overview |website=crunchbase.com |accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref> 
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| 2009 || January || || Y Combinator announces that the Cambridge program would be closed and all future programs would take place in {{w|Silicon Valley}}.<ref>{{cite web |first=Paul |last=Graham |url=http://old.ycombinator.com/ycca.html|work=Y Combinator|title=California Year-Round|date=January 2009|accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2010 || Early year || || "In early 2010, Harj Taggar joined as an advisor"
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| 2010 || September || || {{w|Alexis Ohanian}} joins {{w|Y Combinator}}.<ref>{{cite web|author=Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 |url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/reddit-cofounder-alexis-ohanian-to-join-y-combinator/ |title=Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian To Join Y Combinator |work=TechCrunch |date=2010-09-01 |accessdate=2012-02-28}}</ref>
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| 2010 || November || || {{w|Y Combinator}} announces two new partners: American entrepreneur {{w|Paul Buchheit}}, and {{w|Harj Taggar}}, a former participant in the YC program hired to help advise startups.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kincaid |first1=Jason |title=Y Combinator Names First New Partners Since 2005: Paul Buchheit And Harj Taggar |url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/11/12/y-combinator-names-first-new-partners-since-2005-paul-buchheit-and-harj-taggar/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1898432 |website=news.ycombinator.com |accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Graham |first=Paul |url=http://ycombinator.posterous.com/y-combinator-announces-two-new-partners-paul |title=Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar |publisher=Y Combinator Posterous |date=2010-11-12 |accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2011 || January || || {{w|Yuri Milner}} starts automatically backing all Y Combinator companies, with each start-up receiving US$150,000 from Milner and investor {{w|Ron Conway}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Arrington |first1=Michael |title=Start Fund: Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer EVERY New Y Combinator Startup $150k |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venture-milner-ycombinator/facebook-backer-yuri-milner-exits-automatic-y-combinator-investments-idUSBRE9BF1GA20131216 |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Hacker News |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2154706 |website=news.ycombinator.com |accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2011 || January || || {{w|Garry Tan}} joins {{w|Y Combinator}}, first as designer-in-residence and later as partner.<ref>{{cite web|last=Melanson |first=Mike |url=https://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/posterous_co-founder_garry_tan_leaves_for_y_combin.php |title=Posterous Co-Founder Garry Tan Leaves for Y Combinator |publisher=Readwriteweb.com |date=2011-01-14 |accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://fortune.com/2016/08/03/garry-tan-posthaven-y-combinator/|title=Former Y Combinator Partner Garry Tan on What Too Many Startups Get Wrong|website=Fortune|language=en|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2011 || || || {{w|Aaron Iba}} joins as a partner.<ref>{{cite web|last=Tan|first=Garry|title=Welcome Garry and Aaron|work=Y Combinator Posthaven|url=http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-garry-and-aaron |date=January 23, 2012 |accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2013 || September || || [[w:Paul Graham (computer programmer)|Paul Graham]] announces Y Combinator would fund nonprofit organizations accepted into its program after having tested the concept with {{w|Watsi}} (while continuing to fund mostly for-profit startups).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/09/06/following-watsi-y-combinator-to-now-fund-non-profit-startups-in-the-form-of-a-charitable-donation/|title=Y Combinator To Fund Non-Profit Startups With Charitable Donations|author=Ken Yeung|date=6 September 2013|work=The Next Web|accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2013 || October || || {{w|Y Combinator}} opens a satellite office in {{w|San Francisco}}.<ref name="The Silicon Valley exodus continues"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Y Combinator opens S.F. satellite office |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/10/11/y-combinator-opens-sf-satellite-office.html |website=bizjournals.com |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lawler |first1=Ryan |title=As More Startups Move To San Francisco, Y Combinator Opens A Satellite Office In The City |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/10/yc-sf/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2014 || February || || [[w:Paul Graham (computer programmer)|Paul Graham]] announces {{w|Sam Altman}} would take over as President of Y Combinator.<ref name="SamForPres">{{cite web |first=Paul |last=Graham |url=http://blog.ycombinator.com/sam-altman-for-president|work=Y Combinator|title=Sam Altman for President|date=February 21, 2014 |accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2014 || April 22 || || "We have a new standard deal at YC—we’ll invest $120k for 7%.  While we may deviate from this in exceptional cases, it will still be the case for almost all of the companies we fund."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Altman |first1=Sam |title=The New Deal |url=https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-new-deal/ |website=blog.ycombinator.com |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || May || || Taggar leaves {{w|Y Combinator}}.<ref>[https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/07/triplebyte/  Former YC Partner Harj Taggar Is Building The New Technical Hiring Pipeline With TripleByte] (May 7, 2015), Kim-Mai Cutler, ''{{w|TechCrunch}}''</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Loizos |first1=Connie |title=Garry Tan Says Goodbye to Y Combinator |url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/06/garry-tan-says-goodbye-to-y-combinator/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || July || || Y Combinator introduces the YC Fellowship Program aimed at companies at an earlier stage than the main program.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|last=Loizos|first=Connie|title=Y Combinator Just Introduced a New Program to Reach Up to "1,000" Companies Per Year|url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/20/y-combinator-just-introduced-a-new-program-to-reach-up-to-1000-companies-per-year/ |work=TechCrunch|date=July 20, 2015|accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || August 26 || || ''[[w:Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' calls Y Combinator "a spawning ground for emerging tech giants".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://fortune.com/2015/08/26/meet-y-combinators-new-coo/|title=Meet Y Combinator's New COO|accessdate=2016-02-08|publisher=Fortune|first=Leena|last=Rao|date=2015-08-26}}</ref>
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| 2015 || October || || Y Combinator introduces the YC Continuity Fund. The fund allows Y Combinator to make {{w|pro rata}} investments in their alumni companies with valuations under US$300 million. Y Combinator also considers leading or participating in later stage growth financing rounds for YC companies.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Altman|first1=Sam|title=YC Continuity|url=https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-continuity-fund|work=Y Combinator|date=October 15, 2015|accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || October || || YC introduces YC Research to fund long-term fundamental research. YC President {{w|Sam Altman}} donates US$ 10million.<ref name="ycombinator.com">{{cite web |last=Altman |first=Sam |url=http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-research|title=YC Research|work=Y Combinator Posthaven |date=October 7, 2015 |accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || October || || Nonprofit research lab YC Research is announced. Researchers would be paid as full-time employees and be able to receive equity in Y Combinator.<ref name="ycombinator.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://venturebeat.com/2015/10/07/sam-altman-commits-10m-to-start-y-combinator-research-lab/|title=Sam Altman commits $10M to start Y Combinator research lab|first=Ken|last=Yeung|work=VentureBeat}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/7/9473703/y-combinator-research|title=Y Combinator is launching its own in-house moonshot group|first=Casey|last=Newton|date=7 October 2015|publisher=Vox Media|work=The Verge}}</ref>
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| 2015 || November || || {{w|Garry Tan}} leaves {{w|Y Combinator}}.<ref name=":2" />
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| 2016 || January || || {{w|Y Combinator}} announces version 2 of the program, with participating companies receiving US$ 20,000 investment for a 1.5% equity stake. The equity stake is structured as a {{w|convertible security}} that only converts into shares if a company has an [[w:Initial public offering|IPO]], or a funding event or acquisition that values the company at US$ 100 million or more.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Fellowship V2|url = http://blog.ycombinator.com/fellowship-v2|website = Y Combinator Posthaven|access-date = 18 June 2016}}</ref>
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| 2016 || January || || A second study on {{w|basic income}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=YCR is a non-profit research lab |url=https://ycr.org |work=Y Combinator Research |accessdate=18 June 2016}}</ref>
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| 2016 || August 11 || || {{w|Y Combinator}} announces that YC partners would be visiting 11 countries during the fall to meet with founders and learn more about how they can be helpful to international startup communities. These 11 countries are {{w|Nigeria}}, {{w|Denmark}}, {{w|Portugal}}, {{w|Sweden}}, {{w|Germany}}, {{w|Russia}}, {{w|Argentina}}, {{w|Chile}}, {{w|Mexico}}, {{w|Israel}}, and {{w|India}}.<ref name="ycblogaug2016">{{cite web|last1=Manalac|first1=Kat|title=YC Office Hours in 11 Countries This Fall|url=https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-office-hours-in-11-countries-this-fall|website=Y Combinator Posthaven|accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref><ref name="inc42indiaaug2016">{{cite web|last1=Modgil|first1=Shweta|title=YCombinator Is Coming To India This September; Here’s Why You Should Be Excited|url=https://inc42.com/buzz/ycombinator-coming-to-india/|website=Inc 42|accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2016 || September || ||  "Sam Altman announced that the fellowship will be discontinued."
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| 2017 || || || {{w|Y Combinator}} announces Startup School.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/16/startup-school/|title=1500+ startups graduate Y Combinator’s first online Startup School|last=|first=|date=|website=TechCrunch|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || || || Australian quantum physicist {{w|Michael Nielsen}} becomes research fellow at YC Research.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://michaelnielsen.org/|title=Michael Nielsen|website=michaelnielsen.org|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || June || Recognition || ''[[w:Forbes (magazine)|Forbes]]'' ranks 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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| 2017 || June 16 || || 1,584 companies complete Y Combinator’s online Startup School Founders Track program, a figure out of 2,820 startups accepted from the 13,321 companies that applied to Y Combinator’s  10-week program of one-on-one mentorship from past YC startup founders, virtual office hours with a group of fellow students, and an online lecture series.<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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| 2018 || July 18 || || {{w|Y Combinator}} announces a new batch of startup school.<ref>{{cite web |title=Announcing Startup School 2018 |url=https://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-startup-school-2018/ |website=blog.ycombinator.com |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || September 28 || || Y Combinator announces it will increase the size of its investments to US$ 150,000 for 7 percent equity starting with its winter 2019 batch.<ref name="The Silicon Valley exodus continues"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Clark |first1=Kate |title=Y Combinator is changing up the way it invests |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/28/y-combinator-is-changing-up-the-way-it-invests/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Y Combinator is changing up the way it invests |url=https://oklahoman.com/article/feed/6163851/y-combinator-is-changing-up-the-way-it-invests |website=oklahoman.com |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=How YC Has Changed |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18095333 |website=news.ycombinator.com |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || March || || It is reported that {{w|Y Combinator}} would be moving headquarters to {{w|San Francisco}}.<ref name=FootnoteA>{{cite web |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/03/11/venture-capital-andreessen-horowitz-y-combinator.html |title=Venture capital powerhouse is latest Silicon Valley firm to open San Francisco office |last=Kawamoto |first=Dawn |date= March 11, 2019|website=www.bizjournals.com |publisher=''[[San Francisco Business Times]]'' |access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref><ref name="The Silicon Valley exodus continues">{{cite web |title=The Silicon Valley exodus continues |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/05/the-silicon-valley-exodus-continues/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=19 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || May 20 || || {{w|Y Combinator}} announces {{w|Geoff Ralston}} as new President of YC.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.ycombinator.com/geoff-ralston-for-president/|title=Geoff Ralston for President|last=Altman|first=Sam|website=Y Combinator|language=en-US|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref> Meanwhile, Sam Altman would be transitioning to Chairman to spend more time focusing on [[w:OpenAI|Open AI]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://blog.ycombinator.com/updates-from-yc/|title=Updates from YC|last=Combinator|first=Y.|website=Y Combinator|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/08/y-combinator-president-sam-altman-steps-down-to-focus-on-openai/|title=Y Combinator president Sam Altman steps down to focus on OpenAI|date=2019-03-08|website=VentureBeat|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-27}}</ref>
 
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This is a timeline of Y Combinator.

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2005 March 1 Y Combinator is founded by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell and Robert Tappan Morris.[1].[2]
2009 January Y Combinator announces that the Cambridge program would be closed and all future programs would take place in Silicon Valley.[3]
2010 Early year "In early 2010, Harj Taggar joined as an advisor"
2010 September Alexis Ohanian joins Y Combinator.[4]
2010 November Y Combinator announces two new partners: American entrepreneur Paul Buchheit, and Harj Taggar, a former participant in the YC program hired to help advise startups.[5][6][7]
2011 January Yuri Milner starts automatically backing all Y Combinator companies, with each start-up receiving US$150,000 from Milner and investor Ron Conway.[8][9]
2011 January Garry Tan joins Y Combinator, first as designer-in-residence and later as partner.[10][11]
2011 Aaron Iba joins as a partner.[12]
2013 September Paul Graham announces Y Combinator would fund nonprofit organizations accepted into its program after having tested the concept with Watsi (while continuing to fund mostly for-profit startups).[13]
2013 October Y Combinator opens a satellite office in San Francisco.[14][15][16]
2014 February Paul Graham announces Sam Altman would take over as President of Y Combinator.[17]
2014 April 22 "We have a new standard deal at YC—we’ll invest $120k for 7%. While we may deviate from this in exceptional cases, it will still be the case for almost all of the companies we fund."[18]
2015 May Taggar leaves Y Combinator.[19][20]
2015 July Y Combinator introduces the YC Fellowship Program aimed at companies at an earlier stage than the main program.[21]
2015 August 26 Fortune calls Y Combinator "a spawning ground for emerging tech giants".[22]
2015 October Y Combinator introduces the YC Continuity Fund. The fund allows Y Combinator to make pro rata investments in their alumni companies with valuations under US$300 million. Y Combinator also considers leading or participating in later stage growth financing rounds for YC companies.[23]
2015 October YC introduces YC Research to fund long-term fundamental research. YC President Sam Altman donates US$ 10million.[24]
2015 October Nonprofit research lab YC Research is announced. Researchers would be paid as full-time employees and be able to receive equity in Y Combinator.[24][25][26]
2015 November Garry Tan leaves Y Combinator.[11]
2016 January Y Combinator announces version 2 of the program, with participating companies receiving US$ 20,000 investment for a 1.5% equity stake. The equity stake is structured as a convertible security that only converts into shares if a company has an IPO, or a funding event or acquisition that values the company at US$ 100 million or more.[27]
2016 January A second study on basic income.[28]
2016 August 11 Y Combinator announces that YC partners would be visiting 11 countries during the fall to meet with founders and learn more about how they can be helpful to international startup communities. These 11 countries are Nigeria, Denmark, Portugal, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Israel, and India.[29][30]
2016 September "Sam Altman announced that the fellowship will be discontinued."
2017 Y Combinator announces Startup School.[31]
2017 Australian quantum physicist Michael Nielsen becomes research fellow at YC Research.[32]
2017 June Recognition Forbes ranks YC one of two "Platinum Plus Tier U.S. Accelerators".[33]
2017 June 16 1,584 companies complete Y Combinator’s online Startup School Founders Track program, a figure out of 2,820 startups accepted from the 13,321 companies that applied to Y Combinator’s 10-week program of one-on-one mentorship from past YC startup founders, virtual office hours with a group of fellow students, and an online lecture series.[34]
2018 July 18 Y Combinator announces a new batch of startup school.[35]
2018 September 28 Y Combinator announces it will increase the size of its investments to US$ 150,000 for 7 percent equity starting with its winter 2019 batch.[14][36][37][38]
2019 March It is reported that Y Combinator would be moving headquarters to San Francisco.[39][14]
2019 May 20 Y Combinator announces Geoff Ralston as new President of YC.[40] Meanwhile, Sam Altman would be transitioning to Chairman to spend more time focusing on Open AI.[41][42]

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  2. "Y Combinator". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
  3. Graham, Paul (January 2009). "California Year-Round". Y Combinator. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
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  5. Kincaid, Jason. "Y Combinator Names First New Partners Since 2005: Paul Buchheit And Harj Taggar". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
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  8. Arrington, Michael. "Start Fund: Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer EVERY New Y Combinator Startup $150k". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
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  19. Former YC Partner Harj Taggar Is Building The New Technical Hiring Pipeline With TripleByte (May 7, 2015), Kim-Mai Cutler, TechCrunch
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  21. Loizos, Connie (July 20, 2015). "Y Combinator Just Introduced a New Program to Reach Up to "1,000" Companies Per Year". TechCrunch. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
  22. Rao, Leena (2015-08-26). "Meet Y Combinator's New COO". Fortune. Retrieved 2016-02-08. 
  23. Altman, Sam (October 15, 2015). "YC Continuity". Y Combinator. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
  24. 24.0 24.1 Altman, Sam (October 7, 2015). "YC Research". Y Combinator Posthaven. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
  25. Yeung, Ken. "Sam Altman commits $10M to start Y Combinator research lab". VentureBeat. 
  26. Newton, Casey (7 October 2015). "Y Combinator is launching its own in-house moonshot group". The Verge. Vox Media. 
  27. "Fellowship V2". Y Combinator Posthaven. Retrieved 18 June 2016. 
  28. "YCR is a non-profit research lab". Y Combinator Research. Retrieved 18 June 2016. 
  29. Manalac, Kat. "YC Office Hours in 11 Countries This Fall". Y Combinator Posthaven. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
  30. Modgil, Shweta. "YCombinator Is Coming To India This September; Here's Why You Should Be Excited". Inc 42. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
  31. "1500+ startups graduate Y Combinator's first online Startup School". TechCrunch. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
  32. "Michael Nielsen". michaelnielsen.org. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
  33. "The Best Startup Accelerators Of 2017". Forbes. 
  34. Constine, Josh. "1500+ startups graduate Y Combinator's first online Startup School". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  35. "Announcing Startup School 2018". blog.ycombinator.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  36. Clark, Kate. "Y Combinator is changing up the way it invests". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  37. "Y Combinator is changing up the way it invests". oklahoman.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  38. "How YC Has Changed". news.ycombinator.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019. 
  39. Kawamoto, Dawn (March 11, 2019). "Venture capital powerhouse is latest Silicon Valley firm to open San Francisco office". www.bizjournals.com. San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
  40. Altman, Sam. "Geoff Ralston for President". Y Combinator. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
  41. Combinator, Y. "Updates from YC". Y Combinator. Retrieved 2019-03-11. 
  42. "Y Combinator president Sam Altman steps down to focus on OpenAI". VentureBeat. 2019-03-08. Retrieved 2019-05-27.