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Patrick Scaglia is chairman of the Y Combinator Research's project Human Advancement Research Community (HARC). [1] Before that, he was co-director of Foundry@CITRIS and a Hewlett Packard executive for twelve years. [2]
In computer science's combinatory logic, a fixed-point combinator is a higher-order function fix that, for any function f that has an attractive fixed point, returns a fixed point x of that function. A fixed point of a function is a value that, when applied as the input of the function, returns the same value as its output.
Paul Graham is an English-born computer scientist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and essayist. He is best known for his work on Lisp, his former startup Viaweb, co-founding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his blog, and Hacker News. He is the author of several programming books, such as: On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). Technology journalist Steven Levy has described Graham as a "hacker philosopher".
Robert Tappan Morris is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the Morris Worm in 1988, considered the first computer worm on the Internet.
Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchin is a Ukrainian-born American computer scientist. In 1998, soon after graduating from college, he co-founded the company that eventually became PayPal. Levchin notably made contributions to PayPal's anti-fraud efforts and is also the co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA challenge response human test.
Y Combinator is an American seed accelerator, started in March 2005. Y Combinator is consistently ranked at the top of U.S. accelerators.
Silvio Scaglia is an Italian telecoms entrepreneur, the founder of Fastweb S.p.A. and Babelgum. He is also the founder and current Chairman of Pacific Global Management Group (PGM), the holding company that controls the Elite World international network of modeling agencies and the luxury Italian lingerie brand La Perla. He spent his childhood and youth in Novara, Italy. He is based in London where he lives with his family.
Greg McAdoo is a general partner at Bolt.io in Silicon Valley since 2017. Prior to joining Bolt.io, Greg spent 12 years as a Senior Partner at Sequoia Capital. Greg specializes in internet services, mobile, energy and technology investments. Greg at some time was on the boards of Airbnb, Bump Technologies, Cue, Clustrix, Imageshack, MeLLmo and Songkick. Greg also led Sequoia's investment in Y Combinator and previously sat on the boards of Isilon Systems, Loopt, RockYou, Achates Power and PowerFile.
Samuel H. "Sam" Altman is an American entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger. He is the chairman of Y Combinator and co-chairman of OpenAI.
Qi Lu is a Chinese-American software executive and engineer who is the head of Y Combinator China. He was the chief operating officer of Baidu until he stepped down in May 2018. Lu previously was the Executive Vice President at Microsoft, leading the company's work on the Bing search engine, Skype, and Microsoft Office, and before that was a software engineer and manager for Yahoo!'s search technology division.
John Collison is an Irish entrepreneur. He is best known for having co-founded Stripe with his brother, Patrick. The brothers are worth at least $1.1 billion each, after San Francisco-based Stripe raised $150 million from CapitalG, an investment division of Google parent company Alphabet, and General Catalyst Partners.
Victoria Hart, commonly known as Vi Hart, is a self-described "recreational mathemusician" who is well known for creating mathematical videos on YouTube. Hart founded the virtual reality research group eleVR and has co-authored several research papers on computational geometry and the mathematics of paper folding.
Alexis Kerry Ohanian is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor. He is best known as the co-founder and executive chairman of the social news website Reddit. He also co-founded the early-stage venture capital firm Initialized Capital, helped launch the travel search website Hipmunk, and started the social enterprise Breadpig. He was also a partner at Y Combinator. In 2012, Andy Greenberg of Forbes magazine dubbed him "Mayor of the Internet."
Ark is a personal search engine that uses filters such as hometown, current city, high school, college, gender, relationship status, employee, and interests, to search for new people, old classmates, old friends or acquaintances, and new business contacts. Features include managing users' inboxes from their mobile devices, and syncing data from their Yahoo, Aol, Gmail or Google Apps email accounts, while also finding information about whom they are communicating with.
Science Exchange is an online marketplace of research services, enabling scientists to outsource their research and development (R&D) to scientific institutions such as university facilities or commercial contract research organizations. In addition, Science Exchange maintains enterprise-level agreements with R&D-focused organizations, such as pharmaceutical companies, medical device developers, and cosmetics companies, to provide these companies with private marketplaces of research services to streamline procurement processes, investments and contracts for outsourced services. Science Exchange's enterprise clients include major drug and biotechnology companies, including Merck, Amgen, Gilead Sciences, and Genentech.
Light Table is an integrated development environment for software engineering developed by Chris Granger and Robert Attorri. It features real-time feedback allowing instant execution, debugging and access to documentation. The instant feedback provides an execution environment intended to help developing abstractions.
LendUp is a financial technology company that provides loans and credit cards, as well as financial education, access to credit reporting and gamification for responsible lending behavior.
Boom Technology is an American startup company designing a Mach 2.2 55-passenger supersonic transport with a range of 4,500 nmi (8,300 km), to be introduced in 2023, called Overture. After being incubated by Y Combinator in 2016, it raised $51 million of venture capital in 2017, and a further $100 million by January 2019. The Boom XB-1 Baby Boom one-third-scale demonstrator should be flight tested in 2019.
Bikanta is a startup biotech company developing of clinical products that focus on detection of cancer by inserting fluorescent nanodiamonds.
Michael Seibel is CEO and a partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv and Socialcam. He has been a partner at Y Combinator since 2013, advised hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting diversity efforts among startup founders.
Drive Motors is an American-based company in San Francisco, that sells software for a dealership's website, allowing car shoppers to purchase new and used cars online. Aaron Krane founded the software company in 2015, while he was working as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Khosla Ventures.
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