{"id":209538,"date":"2025-03-22T22:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T03:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/y-combinator-startups-are-fastest-growing-most-profitable-in-fund-history-because-of-ai"},"modified":"2025-03-22T22:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T03:10:16","slug":"y-combinator-startups-are-fastest-growing-most-profitable-in-fund-history-because-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/y-combinator-startups-are-fastest-growing-most-profitable-in-fund-history-because-of-ai","title":{"rendered":"Y Combinator startups are fastest growing, most profitable in fund history because of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/y-combinator-startups-are-fastest-growing-most-profitable-in-fund-history-because-of-ai.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan told CNBC that this group is growing significantly faster than past cohorts and with actual revenue. The winter 2025 batch of YC companies in aggregate grew 10% per week, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just the number one or two companies \u2014 the whole batch is growing 10% week on week,\u201d said Tan, who is also a Y Combinator alum. \u201cThat\u2019s never happened before in early-stage venture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That growth spurt is thanks to leaps in artificial intelligence, Tan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan told CNBC that this group is growing significantly faster than past cohorts and with actual revenue. The winter 2025 batch of YC companies in aggregate grew 10% per week, he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just the number one or two companies \u2014 the whole batch is growing 10% week on week,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}