Y Combinator

Leadership & Staff

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Garry Tan Venture Capitalist and San Francisco YIMBY Activist

• CEO ('23→?) [+1]

• Partner ('11→'15)

Geoffrey Ralston

• Position

Kyle Corbitt

• Position

Kat Manalac Partner at YC

• Position

Ashwin Kumar

• Position

Michael Seibel YC Partner

• Position

Alexis Ohanian Co-founder and executive chairman of Reddit; Initialized Capital

• Partner

Matt Krisiloff Y Combinator, Director, YC Research

• Position

Oliver Cameron Angel investor

• Alumni (past)

Emmett Shear OpenAI interim CEO. founder and former chief executive of Twitch

• Partner

Donations

Bayes Impact "Citizen Led" Public Services With "Impact," San Francisco and Paris

• Donation/Grant

Holdings

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Ginkgo Bioworks

• Owner ('14→?)

Callisto Callisto is a nonprofit tech startup that detects serial sexual offenders and connects survivors with support

• Owner

Twitch Interactive Live-streaming video platform; Amazon subsidiary

• Owner

OpenPipe AI

• Owner

Sway Finance

• Owner

Ares Industries Builds low-cost cruise missles

• Owner

SourceDNA SourceDNA was a YC-backed startup that produced a code similarity engine that enabled companies to discover IP and threats inside of compiled code.

• Owner

Legalist A legal battle financing company

• Owner ('16→?)

Brex Inc Brex Inc. is an American financial service and technology company that offers business credit cards and cash management accounts to technology companies.

• Owner

WePay WePay is a multi-party payments API for SMB SaaS, POS Platforms, and Online Marketplaces. It was acquired by JPMorgan Chase in 2018.

• Owner (?→'18)

Child Organizations

OpenResearch Non-profit research lab studying UBI

• Child Org (past)

Members

Tall Poppy Canadian Cybersecurity  Firm

• Member (Apr 1 '18→?)

Peretz Partensky Russian-American; Tech Entrepreneur Biologist, Cofounder Langton Labs

• Member

Hackpad A document collaboration startup was acquired by Dropbox for Dropbox Paper

• Member

Memberships

Bayes Impact "Citizen Led" Public Services With "Impact," San Francisco and Paris

• Supporter

Services & Transactions

Peter Roberts Immigration Attorney for Y Combinator

• Service/Transaction

US Department of Defense

• Courted contracts with YC companies

Willett Advisors LLC investment arm for Michael Bloomberg

• limited partner/investor

Students

Oleg Zaimkin Software entrepreneur

• Student

Miscellaneous Relationships

HB2 North Carolina infamous 2016 bathroom bill

• Affiliation

Make School Applied Science Bachelors in Bay Area Uses Income Sharing Agreements for Tuition

• Investment*