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Y Combinator Acquiring Sequoia Capital

Today, Y Combinator announced its intent to acquire Sequoia Capital. This deal is still pending regulatory review and a successful pitch by Sequoia managing partner Doug Leone on YC Summer 2016 Demo Day. We’re not disclosing the financial terms, but Sequoia’s ownership of YC-backed companies will pass to us, so I’ll…

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SimulaVR's Reaction to Apple

Simula is raising institutional capital for the mass production of our headsets. We're also soliciting angel investors who might be interested in alpha testing our Review Unit headsets (helping us form a bridge to our institutional round). More details on this below.

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Diane Greene’s Advice for Founders [video]

Diane Greene is SVP of Google Cloud and she was also the CEO and cofounder of VMware. This is her talk from the 2017 Female Founders Conference. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transcript Jessica Livingston – I’m here to introduce our next speaker, who’s one of my just…

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Founder Stories: Tracy Young of PlanGrid (YC W12)

PlanGrid founders Tracy Young, Kenny Stone, Ryan Sutton-Gee and Ralph Gootee Tracy Young is the founder and CEO ofPlanGrid [http://www.plangrid.com/en], an app that lets construction companies store blueprints and documents on mobile devices. Since going through the YC’s Winter 2012 batch, PlanGrid has grown from a…

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Leap Spins out of YC

In 2017, Cadran Cowansage [https://twitter.com/cadran_c], a software engineer at YC, started building [https://blog.ycombinator.com/join-leap-an-online-community-for-women/] Leap, an online community for women in tech. This YC project led to thousands of women talking openly about their experiences and sharing career…