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Y Combinator is a verified business account on Instagram with 650.3K followers and 883 posts.

Posts: 883
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Followers: 650.3K
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Following: 154
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Engagement rate: 0.68%
Avg. likes per post: 4,345
Avg. comments per post: 70
Avg. engagement per post: 4,415
Posts analyzed: 12
Avg. video views: 47.8K

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Account type: Business · Professional · Public · Verified
Business category: None
IGTV videos: 14
Highlight reels: 7

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Likes: 3,429
Comments: 136
Views: 40.5K
Posted: Mar 5, 2026, 3:04 PM
Caption: Startup School is back! Hear from Jensen Huang, @sama, @alexanddeer, Jeff Dean, and more. Join a hand-selected group of top CS students, researchers, and engineers for two days of talks, sessions with YC partners, and hands-on robotics demos, right here in San Francisco. Register to attend at ycombinator.com/startupschool or at the link in bio.

Likes: 12.1K
Comments: 197
Posted: Apr 12, 2023, 8:52 PM
Caption: 📙The Pocket Guide of Essential YC Advice Looking for more content on how to start and build a successful startup? Explore all of our free resources for founders: 📚 Startup Library: ycombinator.com/library ▶️ Youtube: youtube.com/ycombinator 👥 Co-founder Matching: ycombinator.com/cofounder-matching

Likes: 5,426
Comments: 89
Views: 70.2K
Posted: Sep 24, 2025, 5:29 PM
Caption: Introducing Early Decision. For students who want to do a startup but also want to finish school first. Apply now, get funded the moment you’re accepted, and do YC after you graduate. ycombinator.com/early-decision

Likes: 3,067
Comments: 78
Views: 28.5K
Posted: Jun 5, 2026, 7:55 PM
Caption: Today, we are launching Paxel: a free tool that helps you understand how you build with AI coding agents. It analyzes your Claude, Codex, and Cursor sessions and gives you a builder profile: how you plan, how you steer agents, how you execute, and what patterns show up across your work. Run one command from your repo and your profile lands in your inbox. If you’re applying to Startup School, paste your Paxel token into your application. Adding it can only help, never hurt. Already applied? You can still go back and add your token. We want to understand how you build. Try it at paxel.ycombinator.com.

Likes: 540
Comments: 3
Posted: Jun 5, 2026, 3:03 PM
Caption: Back in 2023, Max Junestrand was a college student in Sweden with a McKinsey offer in his back pocket. Instead, he and his two co-founders went all in on legal AI and built Legora (YC W24) into one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history. In just 18 months, Legora surpassed $100M in ARR. Today, the company is one of Europe’s most valuable AI startups, recently valued at $5.6B, with nearly 500 employees serving 1,000+ law firms and legal organizations across 50+ markets. In this fireside with YC General Partner Gustaf Alströmer at our Stockholm event in April, Max shares how Legora found its way into legal AI, why it moved so fast after YC, and how it convinced one of the world's most conservative industries to embrace a new way of working. He also digs into fundraising, competing in the age of foundation models, scaling a founder-led culture, and why Legora's ambition goes far beyond legal tech. Tune in on our YouTube or at the link in bio.

Likes: 1,336
Comments: 13
Posted: Jun 4, 2026, 3:37 PM
Caption: In the first episode of our new series Full Stack, Conductor CEO and co-founder Charlie Holtz takes us into the details of how he sets up his workflow for coding and managing AI agents. ▶️ Tune in on our YouTube or at the link in bio!

Likes: 1,711
Comments: 37
Posted: Jun 3, 2026, 3:35 PM
Caption: Some of the biggest companies of the next decade won't be software businesses; they'll be services companies like insurance carriers, law firms, and tax practices rebuilt from scratch with AI doing most of the work. In this episode of Startup School, YC Visiting Partner Charlie Warren walks through the playbook for building AI native services companies, covering how to pick a market with the right traits, why variance kills these businesses faster than anything else, and the P&L math that’ll transform your business model. ▶️ Tune in on our YouTube or at the link in bio.

Likes: 15.7K
Comments: 94
Posted: Jun 1, 2026, 4:02 PM
Caption: "You need to make yourself a big target for luck, and the way to do that is to be curious. Try lots of things, meet lots of people, read lots of books, ask lots of questions." — Paul Graham, How to Do Great Work https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

Likes: 629
Comments: 12
Views: 8,373
Posted: May 27, 2026, 8:45 PM
Caption: We're proud to announce Patrick Collison as a keynote speaker at Startup School! Patrick co-founded Stripe with his brother John in 2010, and over the years built it into the defining financial infrastructure for the internet economy. Stripe now powers more than 5 million businesses, and in 2025, it generated $1.9 trillion in total volume—roughly 1.6% of global GDP. Startup School is a two-day gathering of the world's most ambitious technical builders. We're bringing the best of them to San Francisco on July 25–26. Apply to attend at ycombinator.com/startupschool.

Likes: 928
Comments: 12
Posted: May 27, 2026, 3:26 PM
Caption: Over the past year, we've been building our own internal agent infrastructure: over 350 tools, self-improving skill loops, and a shared organizational brain that gets smarter overnight. In this episode of the Lightcone, we sat down with YC General Partner Pete Koomen to talk about how he led the effort from the ground up. We cover how giving agents unrestricted access to one database was the key unlock, the self-improving skill loops that get smarter overnight, and why he thinks we've arrived at the personal computer moment for AI. ▶️ Tune in on our YouTube or at the link in bio.

Likes: 889
Comments: 12
Posted: May 25, 2026, 4:12 PM
Caption: Eric Ries is the author of The Lean Startup, the NYT bestseller that became a playbook for a generation of founders. He's also the founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange and has a new book out called Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great. In this episode of Main Function, Eric sat down with YC's Garry Tan to talk about why so many founders lose control of the companies they build, and what they can do to stop it. ▶️ Tune in on our YouTube or at the link in bio.

Likes: 6,368
Comments: 152
Views: 91.3K
Posted: May 21, 2026, 8:48 PM
Caption: OpenAI is offering $2M in tokens to every YC company in the spring and summer batches. We extended the summer deadline to May 25 so more founders can get in on it. ycombinator.com/apply

Likes: 3,429
Comments: 136
Views: 40.5K
Posted: Mar 5, 2026, 3:04 PM
Caption: Startup School is back! Hear from Jensen Huang, @sama, @alexanddeer, Jeff Dean, and more. Join a hand-selected group of top CS students, researchers, and engineers for two days of talks, sessions with YC partners, and hands-on robotics demos, right here in San Francisco. Register to attend at ycombinator.com/startupschool or at the link in bio.

Likes: 12.1K
Comments: 197
Posted: Apr 12, 2023, 8:52 PM
Caption: 📙The Pocket Guide of Essential YC Advice Looking for more content on how to start and build a successful startup? Explore all of our free resources for founders: 📚 Startup Library: ycombinator.com/library ▶️ Youtube: youtube.com/ycombinator 👥 Co-founder Matching: ycombinator.com/cofounder-matching

Likes: 5,426
Comments: 89
Views: 70.2K
Posted: Sep 24, 2025, 5:29 PM
Caption: Introducing Early Decision. For students who want to do a startup but also want to finish school first. Apply now, get funded the moment you’re accepted, and do YC after you graduate. ycombinator.com/early-decision

Likes: 3,067
Comments: 78
Views: 28.5K
Posted: Jun 5, 2026, 7:55 PM
Caption: Today, we are launching Paxel: a free tool that helps you understand how you build with AI coding agents. It analyzes your Claude, Codex, and Cursor sessions and gives you a builder profile: how you plan, how you steer agents, how you execute, and what patterns show up across your work. Run one command from your repo and your profile lands in your inbox. If you’re applying to Startup School, paste your Paxel token into your application. Adding it can only help, never hurt. Already applied? You can still go back and add your token. We want to understand how you build. Try it at paxel.ycombinator.com.

Likes: 540
Comments: 3
Posted: Jun 5, 2026, 3:03 PM
Caption: Back in 2023, Max Junestrand was a college student in Sweden with a McKinsey offer in his back pocket. Instead, he and his two co-founders went all in on legal AI and built Legora (YC W24) into one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies in history. In just 18 months, Legora surpassed $100M in ARR. Today, the company is one of Europe’s most valuable AI startups, recently valued at $5.6B, with nearly 500 employees serving 1,000+ law firms and legal organizations across 50+ markets. In this fireside with YC General Partner Gustaf Alströmer at our Stockholm event in April, Max shares how Legora found its way into legal AI, why it moved so fast after YC, and how it convinced one of the world's most conservative industries to embrace a new way of working. He also digs into fundraising, competing in the age of foundation models, scaling a founder-led culture, and why Legora's ambition goes far beyond legal tech. Tune in on our YouTube or at the link in bio.

Likes: 1,336
Comments: 13
Posted: Jun 4, 2026, 3:37 PM
Caption: In the first episode of our new series Full Stack, Conductor CEO and co-founder Charlie Holtz takes us into the details of how he sets up his workflow for coding and managing AI agents. ▶️ Tune in on our YouTube or at the link in bio!

Likes: 1,711
Comments: 37
Posted: Jun 3, 2026, 3:35 PM
Caption: Some of the biggest companies of the next decade won't be software businesses; they'll be services companies like insurance carriers, law firms, and tax practices rebuilt from scratch with AI doing most of the work. In this episode of Startup School, YC Visiting Partner Charlie Warren walks through the playbook for building AI native services companies, covering how to pick a market with the right traits, why variance kills these businesses faster than anything else, and the P&L math that’ll transform your business model. ▶️ Tune in on our YouTube or at the link in bio.

Likes: 15.7K
Comments: 94
Posted: Jun 1, 2026, 4:02 PM
Caption: "You need to make yourself a big target for luck, and the way to do that is to be curious. Try lots of things, meet lots of people, read lots of books, ask lots of questions." — Paul Graham, How to Do Great Work https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

Likes: 629
Comments: 12
Views: 8,373
Posted: May 27, 2026, 8:45 PM
Caption: We're proud to announce Patrick Collison as a keynote speaker at Startup School! Patrick co-founded Stripe with his brother John in 2010, and over the years built it into the defining financial infrastructure for the internet economy. Stripe now powers more than 5 million businesses, and in 2025, it generated $1.9 trillion in total volume—roughly 1.6% of global GDP. Startup School is a two-day gathering of the world's most ambitious technical builders. We're bringing the best of them to San Francisco on July 25–26. Apply to attend at ycombinator.com/startupschool.

Likes: 928
Comments: 12
Posted: May 27, 2026, 3:26 PM
Caption: Over the past year, we've been building our own internal agent infrastructure: over 350 tools, self-improving skill loops, and a shared organizational brain that gets smarter overnight. In this episode of the Lightcone, we sat down with YC General Partner Pete Koomen to talk about how he led the effort from the ground up. We cover how giving agents unrestricted access to one database was the key unlock, the self-improving skill loops that get smarter overnight, and why he thinks we've arrived at the personal computer moment for AI. ▶️ Tune in on our YouTube or at the link in bio.

Likes: 889
Comments: 12
Posted: May 25, 2026, 4:12 PM
Caption: Eric Ries is the author of The Lean Startup, the NYT bestseller that became a playbook for a generation of founders. He's also the founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange and has a new book out called Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great. In this episode of Main Function, Eric sat down with YC's Garry Tan to talk about why so many founders lose control of the companies they build, and what they can do to stop it. ▶️ Tune in on our YouTube or at the link in bio.

Likes: 6,368
Comments: 152
Views: 91.3K
Posted: May 21, 2026, 8:48 PM
Caption: OpenAI is offering $2M in tokens to every YC company in the spring and summer batches. We extended the summer deadline to May 25 so more founders can get in on it. ycombinator.com/apply

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