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Founders outside the Silicon Valley ring: 2026 alternatives

Capital concentration in frontier labs makes the first round harder for founders without a Silicon Valley network, but alternatives have multiplied: revenue-based financing for recurring ARR, improved venture debt after the SVB collapse, public grants like ENISA and CDTI Neotec, and AI-leveraged bootstrapping that shrinks the team you need.

3 min 333
Startup

Y Combinator 2025: trends from the AI cohorts

Y Combinator's W25 and S25 cohorts show a historic tilt toward vertical agents and developer tools, with outcome-based pricing emerging as a new model. I break down the visible patterns, the business models on display, and what founders operating outside Silicon Valley should copy from this reading of the batch.

6 min 797 4.3