Who We Are. Request for Investment.xls. What Happens At Y Combinator. What Happens At Y Combinator Paul Graham updated Oct 2013 Y Combinator runs two three-month funding cycles a year, one from January through March and one from June through August. We ask the founders of each startup we fund to move to the Bay Area for the duration of their cycle, during which we work intensively with them to get the company into the best shape possible. Each cycle culminates in an event called Demo Day, at which the startups present to an audience that now includes most of the world's top startup investors. Dinners During each cycle we host a dinner once a week at Y Combinator and invite some eminent person from the startup world to speak.
People start to show up for dinners around 6 pm. The time before dinner is a chance for founders to talk to one another and to us in an unstructured way. The speaker usually shows up before 7 and talks informally with the founders before dinner. One founder wrote: Office Hours Half of YC is events in which all the startups participate. Learn to code. Computer Science.