New combinator companies are faster in the history of funds due to AI

Silicon Valley’s first companies are receiving a great impulse from artificial intelligence.

Combinator of Accelerator and Combinator of Start – Known for its support Airbnb, Dropbox And Stripe: This week he celebrated his annual demonstration day in San Francisco, where the founders launched their new companies to an auditorium of possible risk capital investors.

The CEO of and Combinator, Garry Tan, told CNBC that this group is growing significantly faster than past cohorts with real income. During the last nine months, the whole lot of YC companies in aggregate grew 10% per week, he said.

“It is not just the companies number one or two: the whole lot is growing 10% week by week,” said Tan, who is also a student of and Combinator. “That has never happened before in the company in the initial stage.”

That growth growth is thanks to artificial intelligence jumps, he said so.

Application developers can now download or automate more repetitive tasks, and can generate a new code using large language models. He called it “Vibra Codification”, a term to let the models take the wheel and generate software. In some cases, AI can encode complete applications.

The ability to subsidize a heavy workload has allowed these companies to build with fewer people. For approximately a quarter of the new current YC companies, 95% of its code was written by AI, said so.

“That sounds a bit scary, but on the other hand, what means for the founders is that it does not need a team of 50 or 100 engineers,” said Tan, and added that companies reach up to $ 10 million in revenues with equipment of less than 10 people. “You don’t have to raise so much. The capital spends much longer.”

The growth mentality in all the costs of the Silicon Valley during the era of the zero interest rate has come out “through the window,” said so, pointing out a renewed approach in profitability. This focus on the final result also applies to Megacap technology companies. Google, Goal and Amazon They have gone through multiple rounds of layoffs and have withdrawn the hiring.

While that is agitated to some engineers, he described him as an opportunity.

It is easier to build a startup, and the best people in technology do not have to demonstrate their value when working in large technological companies, he said.

“There is a lot of anxiety in the labor market, especially of young software engineers,” he said so. “Maybe it is that engineer who could not get a goal or Google that can really build an independent business that wins $ 10 million or $ 100 million a year with ten people, that is such a powerful moment in the software.”

About 80% of YC companies that occurred this week focused on AI, with a handful of robotics and semiconductor startups. This group of companies has been able to prove the previous commercial use compared to the previous generations, said Tan.

“There are a lot of advertising, but the only thing about this moment is that people are really obtaining commercial validation,” he said. “If you are an investor on the day of the demonstration, you can call a real client, and that person will say: ‘Yes, we use the software every day.”

And Combinator was founded in 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell. The firm invests $ 500,000 in new companies in exchange for capital participation. Those founders then enter a three -month program at the San Francisco headquarters and obtain guidance of partners and former students of YC. Demo Day is a way of attracting additional capital.

The firm has financed more than 5.3000 companies, which, they say, are worth more than $ 800 billion in total. More than a dozen of them are public, and more than 100 are valued at $ 1 billion or more. More than 15,000 companies request to enter the accelerator, with an acceptance rate of approximately 1%.

More than these risk capital incubators have appeared during the last decade, and more capital has come to the new companies of the initial stage. Despite the competition, he argued that and Combinator has an advantage thanks to its strong network. He pointed out the number of highly valued portfolio companies that rise and withdrew the idea that specialized incubators were taking business.

“Around 20 to 30% of the companies during the YC change their idea and, sometimes, their industry completely. And if you end with an incubator that is very specialized, you may not be able to change in what it was supposed to do,” he said so. “We believe that the effects of the network and the advantages of making YC have only become more bold.”