Y Combinator News
Latest Y Combinator news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 19 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
American startup accelerator that has funded thousands of companies including Airbnb, Stripe and Coinbase.
- Ultra Robotics Raises $62 Million to Put a Forklift-Armed Humanoid in Every Warehouse Dock — — Ultra Robotics has raised $62 million, including a $50 million Series A led by Framework Ventures, to scale its OP1 Operator robot for unloading and p...
- Discovered Materials Raises $9M Seed To Aim AI Agent Swarms At Cooler AI Chips — — YC-backed Discovered Materials pulled in $9M led by Lightspeed India to run swarms of AI research agents 24/7 in search of cooler substrate materials...
- Angle Health Locks In $600M At $2.7B To Scale AI Health Benefits — — Y Combinator alum Angle Health raised $600 million — a $200M Series C plus a $400M tender offer — at a $2.7 billion valuation led by Vitruvian Partner...
- AfterQuery Hits $3.2B, Becomes Y Combinator's Fastest-Ever Unicorn — — AI training-data startup AfterQuery is now valued at $3.2B five months after a $30M Series A at $300M — Y Combinator's fastest-ever launch-to-unicorn,...
- Conveo Raises $50M Series A For Always-On AI Consumer Research — — Antwerp-based Conveo raised a $50M Series A led by DST Global Partners, with Balderton, Visionaries, 6 Degrees Capital and Y Combinator, to scale its...
- AMD Ventures And Marathon Back Wafer With $40M Series A For AI Inference Silicon — — San Francisco startup Wafer raised a $40M Series A led by Marathon and Chemistry, with AMD Ventures, Wing, Y Combinator and Fifty Years joining to fun...
- YC-Backed Zeit AI Raises €5M Seed To Ship 'Autonomous Data Engineer' To European Mid-Market — — Munich's Zeit AI closed a €5M seed on September 3, 2026 backed by Y Combinator, Sequoia's Scout Fund and Hasso Plattner VC to scale ZeitMind across Ge...
- Arintra Raises $25M Series B For Autonomous Medical Coding AI — — San Francisco healthcare AI startup Arintra has closed a $25 million Series B led by Define Ventures, taking total funding to $51 million as its agent...
- Blacksmith Nets $45M Series B As Peak XV Bets On AI Code Validation — — Blacksmith's Series B, led by Peak XV Partners at a $550M valuation, funds the compute layer where AI-written code gets built, tested and approved bef...
- HappyRobot Raises $150M Series C At $1.2B To Push AI Agents Into Every Enterprise Workflow — — Prysm Capital and Eurazeo lead a $150M Series C for HappyRobot, valuing the San Francisco agentic AI company at $1.2 billion post-money and taking tot...
- Henry AI Raises $16.5M Series A To Automate The Grunt Work Of Commercial Real Estate — — Henry AI has raised a $16.5M Series A led by FirstMark Capital with Thomson Reuters Ventures, Y Combinator and others to scale its AI copilot for comm...
- Terminal Raises $20M Series A To Become The Telematics Data Layer For Fleets And Insurers — — Toronto-based Terminal has closed a $20M Series A led by Battery Ventures with participation from Intact Private Capital, Penske, Y Combinator and Way...
- Ultra Robotics OP1 Hits 30% Order-Fill At Brooklyn 3PL Highline Commerce — — Brooklyn 3PL Highline Commerce says Ultra Robotics' wall-powered Operator OP1 fleet now fills up to 30% of client e-commerce orders 24/7 — the first c...
- Candid Health Raises $120M Series D To Automate U.S. Medical Billing — — Candid Health closed a $120M Series D led by Sixth Street Growth, tripling its valuation from 2025 to scale an AI-powered revenue cycle platform now u...
- Klaimee Lands $5.5M Seed To Underwrite Liability For Autonomous AI Agents — — The Y Combinator-backed InsurTech Klaimee closed a $5.5M seed led by FundersClub's Alexander Mittal to underwrite third-party and first-party liabilit...
- Emergent Vaults To $1.5B Unicorn With $130M Series C For Its AI App Factory — — AI software creation startup Emergent has raised a $130M Series C led by Creaegis at a $1.5B valuation, quintupling its price tag four months after it...
- Ollama Raises $65M Series B As Open Model Runner Hits 9M Developers — — The developer platform that packages open-weight models into a one-line install closed a $65 million Series B led by Theory Ventures, taking total fun...
- Proception Raises $11M, Settles Tesla Suit to Build Robot Hands — — Ex-Tesla Optimus lead Jay Li's startup Proception raised an $11M seed led by First Round Capital and settled Tesla's trade secret suit, shipping its f...
- Supabase Closes $500M Series F At $10.5B Valuation As Vibe Coding Surges — — Singapore's GIC led the $500M Series F with Stripe, Accel and Y Combinator participating, eight months after Supabase's Series E. The Postgres-based s...