{"id":372631,"date":"2026-04-03T08:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/372631\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:02:18","slug":"y-combinator-startups-land-checks-gather-hype-as-neo-others-vie-for-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/372631\/","title":{"rendered":"Y Combinator Startups Land Checks, Gather Hype as Neo &#038; Others Vie for Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!YWVk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f39338a-e792-43b5-81f9-4d483e6c9cb5_3000x2000.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/6f39338a-e792-43b5-81f9-4d483e6c9cb5_3000.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"971\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/6f39338a-e792-43b5-81f9-4d483e6c9cb5_3000x2000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:5299081,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.newcomer.co\/i\/192986088?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f39338a-e792-43b5-81f9-4d483e6c9cb5_3000x2000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think Y Combinator is overrated and overvalued? We\u2019ve heard it all before. Investors still won\u2019t stop writing checks.<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s YC demo day had VCs buzzing about several startups from the Winter 2026 batch.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, there were fewer companies that could be referred to (in derogatory terms) as \u201cChatGPT wrappers\u201d \u2014 especially compared with a couple of years ago. AI infrastructure for enterprise was a big theme this batch, as was AI tooling for specific industries, like law and finance. Startups building the infrastructure for robotics also made a good showing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Think Y Combinator is overrated and overvalued? We\u2019ve heard it all before. Investors still won\u2019t stop writing checks.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-372631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}