Y Combinator built its empire on software. Its latest investment thesis says the garage is no longer enough.
Y Combinator published its Summer 2026 Request for Startups in late April, just days before the application deadline. The document lists 15 categories of companies that YC’s partners want to fund. Eight of them require capital, hardware, or both. The list includes AI for low-pesticide agriculture, counter-swarm drone defence, inference chips for space, lunar manufacturing […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
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