---
name: Y Combinator
domain: ycombinator.com
kind: publisher
relation: shaper
segment: business incorporation services
descGrounded: 0.2
---

# Y Combinator

A startup accelerator and venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies and publishes founder advice and company directories.

**Route:** surfaced by the business incorporation services lane's de-branded queries → shaper to stripe.com.

**Why it's on the map:** YC funded and accelerated Stripe's founding batch (S09) and continues to be the startup-incubation model that Stripe itself emerged from and that the broader fintech infrastructure market defines itself against.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> The Collison brothers did YC twice—first in W07 and then in S09, when they started Stripe.

> YC turns builders into formidable founders

**Edges:**

- competitor [[stripe-com]]
