YC: Requests for Startups

Just plain marketing. In reality they will invest in incremental startups of serial entrepreneurs or well known people in silicon valley.

They became traditional corporate long ago. Shows in their recent portfolio.

Yep, already got rejected couple of times, even before the AI boom, with my company which clearly falls under "Using Machine Learning to simulate the physical world" and "Explainable A.I." and have the potential to fall under most of the rest...

A lot of YC's material about their selection process centers around the founders instead of the idea. They openly admit that they choose a team and expect you to pivot a few times.

Obviously I don't know anything about you or your ideas and I don't mean to offend but I've typically assumed that a YC rejection means they disqualified the candidate for one reason or another.

Do they give feedback in their rejection? I'm considering applying.