<story><title>The YC Summer 2022 Batch</title><url>https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-yc-summer-2022-batch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>&amp;gt; 43% of the batch were accepted with only an idea&lt;p&gt;I would love to hear more details about this lot. A billion+ people on the planet (including most of this forum I bet) have &amp;quot;killer&amp;quot; startup ideas and swear they can successfully execute on them with some money. How exactly does YC judge their merit and fund them without as much as a working prototype? Do you look at past history of successful launches? Education&amp;#x2F;work pedigree? Personality? It&amp;#x27;s pretty wild that such founders make up almost half of the batch.</text></comment>
<story><title>The YC Summer 2022 Batch</title><url>https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-yc-summer-2022-batch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mdorazio</author><text>&amp;gt; 15% of the companies have a woman founder and 9% of the founders are women&lt;p&gt;The trend continues.  I still want to see an objective analysis for why so few female founders make it through the funnel.  I haven&amp;#x27;t found any good stats to see if the overall % of startup founders (regardless of YC participation) is abysmal, if it&amp;#x27;s the software focus that acts as a filter, if it&amp;#x27;s the VC focus, or something else entirely.</text></comment>