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We're excited to announce that Christopher Golda and Grey Baker are joining Y Combinator as General Partners.
Chris and Grey have both been Visiting Partners at YC, where they've already made a big impact working closely with founders across multiple batches. Now, as General Partners, they'll play an even bigger role in selecting, advising, and supporting the...

We're thrilled to announce that Diana Hu has been promoted to Managing Partner at Y Combinator.
Diana first came through YC as a founder. She co-founded Escher Reality (S17), an augmented reality backend that was acquired by Niantic in 2018. Diana returned to YC in 2021 as a Visiting Group Partner, and joined full-time as a Group Partner in 20...

We're thrilled to announce that Harshita Arora is joining Y Combinator as a General Partner.
Harshita has been a Visiting Partner at YC since the Summer 2025 batch, making her the youngest visiting partner in YC's history.
Harshita discovered coding at 13, dropped out of school at 15 to pursue it full-time, and by 16 had built Crypto Price Tracker, a crypto portfolio management app that was featured by Apple, which was subsequently acquired, and earned her India's Bal...

Going forward, YC will once again invest in US, Canada, Cayman, and Singapore corporations.
We previously decided to remove Canada from this list because we noticed that our top-performing Canadian companies reincorporated in the US. This is likely because incorporating in the US gives companies easier access to investor capital at Demo Day...