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Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, told Walter Isaacson's podcast The Builders that he spends roughly $100,000 to $200,000 annually on AI tokens. Tan said he relies heavily on AI agents for work and personal tasks, including an agent that has read his email, Dropbox files and even two decades of therapy notes. He also described an internal YC agent called Stray Light that holds context on every founder the firm has backed.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke to prospective startup founders at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, expressing what he called 'chronic disappointment' with MBA students. He offered advice to young job seekers based on his experience founding Loopt and OpenAI and leading Y Combinator.
Deepgram announced Thursday it has acquired Daily, the company behind the widely used open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, which manages real-time voice and video pipelines including speech-to-text, LLMs, and text-to-speech. Financial terms were not disclosed, but both companies said Pipecat will remain open-source. Daily had raised over $62 million from investors including Tiger Global and Nat Friedman, while Deepgram became a unicorn earlier this year after a $130 million Series C round.
Evidence, a business intelligence company backed by Y Combinator and other investors, announced it is hiring software engineers. The company says its open-source BI tool has amassed 7,000 GitHub stars and is used by startups, Fortune 100 firms, and government agencies, often replacing platforms like Tableau and Power BI.
An opinion piece by the founder of a 20-person AI company describes how the firm uses AI tools to compete against much larger, better-funded competitors. The author cites Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's comments to CNBC about sub-ten-person teams reaching $10 million in revenue, and the $80 million sale of eight-employee app builder Base44 to Wix, as evidence small teams can scale with AI. The piece also references a GitClear study of 211 million lines of code that found copy-pasted code surpassing refactored code in 2024, linking the trend to AI coding assistants.
Outlit, a Y Combinator-backed startup led by Josh Earle and Leo Paz, is building AI agents designed to continuously monitor business customers by pulling data from internal sources like call logs and CRM records alongside external sources such as social media and employer websites. The company compiles this information into customer profiles with recommended sales or outreach actions, aiming to help businesses prevent customer churn or identify upsell opportunities. The product has not yet been publicly released.
Stable, a Y Combinator W20 company that provides businesses with virtual addresses and mail management, is hiring product engineers. The company says over 15,000 businesses, including Brex, Doordash, and Gusto, currently use its platform to handle mail and serve as their registered address with the IRS and state agencies. Stable is backed by investors including Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, Shakti, and Hustle Fund.
Angle Health, a Y Combinator alum from 2020 that helps small businesses manage level-funded health plans, announced a $200 million Series C round plus a $400 million tender offer allowing employees to sell shares. The round, valuing the company at $2.7 billion, was led by Vitruvian Partners with participation from Town Hall Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Portage Ventures, PruVen Capital, and Y Combinator, and is expected to close later this month. Angle says it now serves over 5,000 businesses and is profitable.
Langdock, a Berlin-based enterprise AI platform serving roughly 13,000 organisations, has dismantled its US holding company and reorganised into a Societas Europaea registered in Germany. The switch, which began in early 2026 and cost several million euros, reverses the common practice among European startups of setting up US parent entities to attract investors.
Lingo.dev, a localization engineering platform that graduated from Y Combinator and secured venture funding, is hiring a senior content engineer to work remotely from anywhere. The role covers writing, publishing and distributing content daily across blogs, newsletters, social platforms and ad channels, while also owning SEO and AI-visibility metrics. Candidates are expected to automate repetitive tasks using AI tools and scripting to maintain a consistent publishing pace.
Cua, a Y Combinator-backed startup building infrastructure for AI agents that operate computers and applications, is hiring its first dedicated go-to-market employee. The hire will work directly with founders to identify target customers, design sales and pilot processes from scratch, and help grow products built on Cua's Driver framework. Responsibilities span the entire commercial cycle, from technical discovery and demos to closing deals and expanding accounts.
Superhuman has acquired Fathom, a Y Combinator-backed AI meeting notetaker that has attracted over 400,000 monthly active users since its 2020 founding. Rather than build its own notetaking tool from scratch after months of internal testing, Superhuman opted to purchase Fathom, which had raised more than $30 million and was valued at $94 million in 2024.