---
title: "Y Combinator"
category: "companies"
aliases: ["Y Combinator"]
website: "https://www.ycombinator.com/"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule", "Public company site", "Automated company profile fetch"]
---
# Y Combinator

## Overview
Y Combinator is represented at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026. Its public site describes it this way: Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Four times a year we invest in a large number of startups.

## Background
The official speaker roster connects Y Combinator to Eve Bouffard, Garry Tan. The public company site was discovered by domain-guess and fetched for homepage metadata.

## Conference Relevance
Y Combinator matters to this wiki through 2 official speaker(s) and 2 scheduled session(s), including: Imagination Engineering; Closing Keynote: Garry Tan.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-eve-bouffard-imagination-engineering]] - Imagination Engineering (2026-06-30, 2:25pm-2:45pm)
- [[2026-07-01-garry-tan-closing-keynote-garry-tan]] - Closing Keynote: Garry Tan (2026-07-01, 4:50pm-5:10pm)

## Connections
- [[eve-bouffard]] - Head of Design
- [[garry-tan]] - President & CEO

## Sources
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this organization appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-eve-bouffard-imagination-engineering|Imagination Engineering]]
- [[2026-07-01-garry-tan-closing-keynote-garry-tan|Closing Keynote: Garry Tan]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-I2cbIws9j10` — 91,792 transcript words; 7 slide-derived text signals
- Transcript signals for `youtube-I2cbIws9j10`: code, model, back, system, well, first, today, even.
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-I2cbIws9j10`: context, window, selects, response, facts, retry, coerce, rollback.
- Evidence links for `youtube-I2cbIws9j10`: [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10]], [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10-transcript]], [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10-slides]], [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10-dense-slides]]

## Notes
- Automated company profile fetch status: fetched.

## Evidence Boundary
Official roster and schedule facts are treated as canonical for conference participation. Public company sites, documentation, and professional profiles are supporting context used to explain what the organization does and why it is relevant.