Y-Combinator

Excelerate Labs is the Y-Combinator or TechStars in Chicago, and we got into Excelerate which is when we really started moving.

Angie Chang: "Action First" -- Interview With Alltuition Founder & CEO Sue Khim Angie Chang 2011

It uses the NowJS library, a web framework for building real-time web apps in JavaScript built by former Berkeley students and Y-Combinator alumni Darshan Shankar, Eric Zhang, and Sridatta Thatipamala.

Marissa Louie: For the Win, At the Berkeley CSUA Hackathon Marissa Louie 2011

Excelerate Labs is the Y-Combinator or TechStars in Chicago, and we got into Excelerate which is when we really started moving.

Angie Chang: "Action First" -- Interview With Alltuition Founder & CEO Sue Khim Angie Chang 2011

Excelerate Labs is the Y-Combinator or TechStars in Chicago, and we got into Excelerate which is when we really started moving.

Angie Chang: "Action First" -- Interview With Alltuition Founder & CEO Sue Khim Angie Chang 2011

Excelerate Labs is the Y-Combinator or TechStars in Chicago, and we got into Excelerate which is when we really started moving.

Angie Chang: "Action First" -- Interview With Alltuition Founder & CEO Sue Khim Angie Chang 2011

With financial support from big names like Y-Combinator and Paul Buchheit, the creator of G-Mail and Google AdSense and the entrepreneurial skills of Goldstein and the whiz kids of Reddit, the tired curtain of flight search may be opening to reveal a hip little chipmunk rocking aviator goggles.

Courtney Boyd Myers: For Flight Search, It Doesn't Get More Hip Than Hipmunk 2010

Most recently, he founded an early-stage venture investment firm like Y-Combinator.

Tim Ferriss: Cold Remedy: 18 Real-World Lifestyle Design Case Studies (Now, It's Your Turn) 2010

With financial support from big names like Y-Combinator and Paul Buchheit, the creator of G-Mail and Google AdSense and the entrepreneurial skills of Goldstein and the whiz kids of Reddit, the tired curtain of flight search may be opening to reveal a hip little chipmunk rocking aviator goggles.

Courtney Boyd Myers: For Flight Search, It Doesn't Get More Hip Than Hipmunk 2010

Last July, Google acquired video-sharing start-up Omnisio, four months after the company made a presentation at another Y-Combinator event.

Google Takes a Breather on Acquisitions By Alexei Oreskovic - Analysis 2009

A scout from Google's corporate development group — the unit that oversees mergers and acquisitions — was on hand at a Silicon Valley event last Wednesday organized by venture firm Y-Combinator, at which a crop of start-up firms pitched their ideas to a select crowd of investors.

Google Takes a Breather on Acquisitions By Alexei Oreskovic - Analysis 2009