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Regional ecosystem
Y Combinator is one of 330 verified robotics companies in California →
Key facts
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Data & sources
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Y Combinator on the deployment map
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Relationships
Former / Previously (1)
- Brad Lightcap Y Combinator Continuitysecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Y Combinator.
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Recent coverage
Y Combinator in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
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Partnerships (1)
- Gecko Robotics Series D (2025) with Gecko Robotics, Cox Enterprises, Founders Fund, USIT, XNinvestment
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 25, 2026
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-05
Verification posture
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Review state
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Last reviewed 2026-08-05
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Methodology surface for Y Combinator.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Y Combinator from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Blacksmith raises $45M to aid AI code validation as agentic development grows
Blacksmith Software Inc. today announced it has raised $45 million in new funding for its continuous integration service, which combines code development with cloud-based testing…
AI Startup River AI Raises $1.1B to Build Personally Trainable AI Agents
River AI, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AMD…
Waymo CEO: Vision-Only Self-Driving Safety Curve Flattens “Way Too Early”
Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov recently gave a very interesting, 49-minute-long presentation at a Y Combinator event. A few days ago, I covered some of his comments from the beginning…
Pally Raises $5.2M Seed
Pally raises $5.2M seed round led by Cyber Fund and Y Combinator to expand its AI-powered personal assistant platform that integrates with popular apps.
Naïve bags $28.5M in funding to automate the creation and day-to-day running of almost any business
Palo Alto-based Naïve Inc., an artificial intelligence lab that’s developing autonomous agents capable of setting up and running entire businesses, said today it has closed on a…
The Return Of The Repeat Founder: Inside YC’s Growing Class Of Second-Timers
We analyzed a dataset of repeat founders who have gone through Y Combinator’s cohorts and found some very interesting insights. The dataset, shared with us directly from YC,…
Robinhood to list a fund that lets anyone back Y Combinator startups
Robinhood's latest financial instrument intends to let any retail investor feel like they, too, can make money by backing Y Combinator startups.
HappyRobot raises $150M at $1.2B valuation to bring AI agents to critical enterprise work
HappyRobot Inc., a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup that automates enterprise operations, said today it raised $150 million, led by Prysm Capital and co-led by…
HappyRobot Raises $150M in Series C Funding to Expand AI-Agent Platform for Logistics & Supply Chains
Insider Brief HappyRobot has announced raising $150 million in Series C funding to expand its AI-agent platform and grow its engineering, deployment and sales teams globally.…
HappyRobot lands $150M Series C to scale agentic AI for enterprise operations
HappyRobot, a company developing agentic AI for supply chains has raised $150 million in Series C funding led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo. Existing investors a16z,…
Robinhood Private Company Fund to Back Y Combinator Startups
Robinhood Markets Inc. kicked off formal marketing of its second publicly traded closed-end fund, which will focus on investing in private companies that have participated in…
Henry AI Raises $16.5 Million Series A And Launches Henry Deal
Henry AI Inc. has announced a $16.5 million Series A round. FirstMark Capital led the round. Thomson Reuters Ventures participated, along with follow-on investment from Y…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/y-combinator.md
- RSS feed: /companies/y-combinator/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/d04f8940-23cf-4342-bf81-adc11e9e7e0c
- Revision history: /companies/y-combinator/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Reality vs attention
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Analysis
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Last computed: Aug 18, 2026