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Y Combinator

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We're excited to announce Diana Hu (@sdianahu) as YC's newest Managing Partner. Diana co-founded Escher Reality (YC S17), which was acquired by Niantic, where she shipped AR to the 100M+ people playing Pokémon GO. Since returning to YC as a partner, she has worked with nearly
Diana Hu Is YC's Newest Managing Partner | Y Combinator
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Paul Graham
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You are far more dangerous to your startup than competitors are. A hundred times more startups die from poor execution by their founders than are killed by competitors.
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AI is pushing data centers to their limits, and cooling is becoming one of the biggest bottlenecks. @ferveret is taking a nuclear reactor-inspired approach to fix it. Their system outperforms state-of-the-art liquid cooling by 15% and delivers 35% more tokens from the same
Startup’s nuclear-inspired cooling system could make data centers more sustainable
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Nicolas Dessaigne
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I’ve worked with Diana a lot over the past few years as a YC partner, especially around devtools. She has incredible founder taste, deep technical expertise, and real care for the people she works with. Couldn’t be more excited about this. Congrats @sdianahu!
Y Combinator
@ycombinator
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We're excited to announce Diana Hu (@sdianahu) as YC's newest Managing Partner. Diana co-founded Escher Reality (YC S17), which was acquired by Niantic, where she shipped AR to the 100M+ people playing Pokémon GO. Since returning to YC as a partner, she has worked with nearly
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Avyay Varadarajan
@avyvar
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Token-maxxing is getting out of hand. Most AI apps send every request to the biggest model, even when a smaller model would work. We built Dari Router to fix that.
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Science Co-founder and CEO, @maxhodak_, is speaking at Startup School 2026! He and his team are developing retinal implants and neural interfaces for patients with vision loss and neurological disease, advancing the frontier of human + computer interaction.
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Coinbase 🛡️
@coinbase
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Meet Coinbase for Agents. Give your agent its own account to: → Execute trades & manage your portfolio → Run autonomously under guardrails → Pay for data & research tools via x402 (coming next week) Agentic finance is here, and it's powered by Coinbase.
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Victor Cardenas Codriansky
@victorcardenas
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Slash is about to cross 1BN in deposits. If you become the billionth dollar of AUM (have to deposit ~$2m+ first thing tomorrow) you will get: > A sick trophy > Our Warriors suite for you and your boys for a fall season game Thank you for everyone that has trusted so far!
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Firecrawl
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Introducing Prometheus, an experimental Forward Deployed Agent for web data. Describe the web data you need and it writes Firecrawl code to collect it. Run it yourself or let us host and automatically maintain it as pages change. Try it with Claude Fable 5 for free this week!
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Tanner H. Jones
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Just 11 months after incorporating, @vulcantechteam is officially on the FedRAMP marketplace, the U.S. federal government’s searchable directory of secure cloud products, which federal agencies and states can use to find security-vetted vendors. This was a Herculean effort,
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Diana
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I'm deeply grateful and honored YC has changed my life twice: first as a founder, and now as someone who gets to back and support ambitious talent that's unproven feel lucky to do this work, and even luckier to do it with people I admire so much
Y Combinator
@ycombinator
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We're excited to announce Diana Hu (@sdianahu) as YC's newest Managing Partner. Diana co-founded Escher Reality (YC S17), which was acquired by Niantic, where she shipped AR to the 100M+ people playing Pokémon GO. Since returning to YC as a partner, she has worked with nearly
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Garry Tan
@garrytan
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So proud to call @sdianahu managing partner at YC. Her ability to help founders is incredible. Our community is so lucky to have her ability, empathy, and prescience.
Y Combinator
@ycombinator
6h
We're excited to announce Diana Hu (@sdianahu) as YC's newest Managing Partner. Diana co-founded Escher Reality (YC S17), which was acquired by Niantic, where she shipped AR to the 100M+ people playing Pokémon GO. Since returning to YC as a partner, she has worked with nearly
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Max Junestrand
@MaxJunestrand
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Yesterday I joined @CNBC Squawk Box Europe to talk about what's really happening in the legal industry right now. This isn't disruption in the traditional sense. It's expansion. With our technology, more legal services are being done, not fewer. But the way they're delivered is
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