Y Combinator

Why this Google product manager left to work on criminal justice reform

Recidiviz, the only nonprofit in the current cohort at the tech accelerator Y Combinator, is using data analytics to determine the best strategies to reduce incarceration.

These flat-pack homes can be fully assembled in less than three months

Can Node’s homes make it easy enough to build apartments so that they make a dent in the housing crisis?

This monthly subscription offsets your personal carbon footprint

And it gives you photos, satellite images, and other data to prove your money is going to real, carbon-sequestering projects.

This online community has gamified the funding process for innovative startups

How drones and satellite images are measuring the forests used for carbon offsets

Pachama is building a verified marketplace for forest carbon offsets.

Alexis Ohanian on why former founders make the best VCs

The Reddit cofounder has teamed up with former Y Combinator partner Garry Tan to run the VC firm Initialized Capital, and they are bringing the lessons they learned from the other side of the table.

Y Combinator wants to fund these wild new ways to capture CO2

Y Combinator is funding a nonprofit that advocates for meat alternatives

The Good Food Institute will sit alongside more traditional startups, as the famous accelerator tries to find ways to reduce our animal consumption.

Inside Ontario’s Big, Bold Basic Income Experiment

The Canadian province is giving some citizens a base salary–and measuring how much it helps keep people out of poverty, improve their health, and give back to their community.

Y Combinator Is Launching A “Grad School” For Booming Startups

The famed startup factory is launching a program designed for the tiny fraction of CEOs whose companies really take off.

This coding school doesn’t charge students unless they snag a $50,000 tech salary

Smart oven startup Tovala just got a cash infusion of $9.2 million

10 Leadership Lessons From Alexis Ohanian

What Reddit’s cofounder learned the hard way as an entrepreneur.

Could Hawaii Be The First State To Offer A Basic Income?

Talking to one the state representatives who’s pushed the state government to study the policy.

Want A Basic Income? Apply To Be In This Documentary

What would you do if you got unconditional cash every week? Two filmmakers want to find out.

The Toddler At Y Combinator

For three months, Julia Kurnia took her nonprofit through the famed startup accelerator—all while caring for her 2-year-old son, alone.

Quick-Hit Wisdom From Y Combinator’s Female Startup Stories

A new site launched today by Y Combinator offers frank advice from some of the most successful women in Silicon Valley.

Y Combinator’s Battle To Redefine The Startup Process

When Y Combinator came under fire in the early days, its team focused on their goal to find success.

Why Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Gave JavaScript A Second Chance

When you revisit old projects, “You find that what didn’t work in the past no longer applies,” says Buchheit.