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Convictional grabs another round of funding to help retailers quickly onboard vendors

Retailers can more easily discover and change out inventory and get to their first orders in as little as 10 days versus three months.

Remote hiring startup Deel raises $156M at a $1.25B valuation after 20x growth in 2020

Many of the world’s organizations shifted to remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But even as more people are vaccinated and offices are planning re-openings, it’s clear that for some organiz

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Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel, Ali Rowghani to reveal new YC top 100 list, talk startups at Disrupt SF

Y Combinator has become its own economy since its founding in 2005, as the formative seed-stage venture fund has nurtured leading startups across industries. Today, you’ll often see newer YC sta

With a new CEO, Y Combinator will wind down fellowships and start a MOOC

Y Combinator, which has been expanding rapidly in recent years, is making broad, organizational changes– for the second time this year. Most dramatically, Y Combinator will be winding down its Y

Former Twitter COO Ali Rowghani To Lead Y Combinator’s $700 Million Growth Fund

Almost a year-and-a-half after Ali Rowghani resigned as COO of Twitter, he’s been appointed the head of Y Combinator’s growth fund by the organization’s president, Sam Altman. TechCrunch had hea

Ex-Pixar And Twitter Exec Ali Rowghani Joins Y Combinator As A Part-Time Partner

After parting ways with Twitter back in June, Ali Rowghani has found a new (part-time) home: Y Combinator. YC has just announced that Rowghani will join their ranks as a part-time partner, with his

Twitter Rises 3.5% In Down Market As COO Exits

Rumors of an imminent management shakeup at Twitter became a reality today as the company's COO Ali Rowghani departed that role. In a down market, Twitter rose 3.5 percent in regular trading, and i

COO Ali Rowghani Departs Twitter, Company Says It Won’t Hire A Replacement

Twitter's chief operating officer Ali Rowghani just <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/ROWGHANI/status/477074205591089153">announced via tweet</a> that he's leaving the company. "Goodbye