Analysis

August 28, 2024

The European startups that made it to Y Combinator S24

Just 11 of the 223 companies accepted in the batch are from Europe


The Y Combinator team give a talk

Startup accelerator and investor Y Combinator — a famed name in global tech and one of the few accelerators VCs say startups should bother with — today unveiled the list of European startups accepted into its summer 2024 batch.

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Tom Matsuda

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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