The accelerator generation
Founders and startups linked to the wider Y Combinator era. Membership is a research grouping; accelerator participation requires its own documented edge.
Explore 21 nodes ↗The teams, labs, and communities whose alumni carried ideas into new companies. A tribe describes a documented professional history, not a claim that every member knows every other.
Founders and startups linked to the wider Y Combinator era. Membership is a research grouping; accelerator participation requires its own documented edge.
Explore 21 nodes ↗The researchers and collaborators who built the protocols, networks and browsers underneath today’s businesses.
Explore 14 nodes ↗Early computing researchers, programmers and the first commercial computer companies.
Explore 25 nodes ↗The transistor, Unix and programming-language research network.
Explore 9 nodes ↗Inventors, industrial laboratories and broadcasters before the digital network.
Explore 11 nodes ↗Research relationships from early quantum mechanics to quantum computing companies.
Explore 14 nodes ↗The people and institutions behind flight computation, rockets and space companies.
Explore 12 nodes ↗A research trail from neural-network pioneers through industrial laboratories, OpenAI, Anthropic and TypeSafe AI. Explore documented papers, mentorship, founding events and investment.
Explore 71 nodes ↗Neural-network researchers connected by documented coauthorship, supervision and academic affiliations. An editorial research grouping, not a single laboratory.
Explore 21 nodes ↗Toronto commercialization, Google Brain, DeepMind and FAIR. Laboratory formation, acquisition and research collaboration remain distinct relationships.
Explore 21 nodes ↗Founding researchers, operators, academic collaborators and named investors around the two laboratories. Membership alone does not assert employment at either company.
Explore 28 nodes ↗TypeSafe AI connects documented OpenAI, Google Brain, FAIR and biotech careers to a new company. The group does not imply a direct Anthropic personnel connection.
Explore 8 nodes ↗Payments founders and early operators who built and funded a generation of companies.
Explore 28 nodes ↗Workstation and network computing talent branching into infrastructure and venture capital.
Explore 14 nodes ↗Semiconductor founders and the companies and funds that followed Fairchild.
Explore 12 nodes ↗The browser team and founders who carried Internet experience into software and venture capital.
Explore 9 nodes ↗Search-era founders and operators, with later investment and startup paths.
Explore 11 nodes ↗The firms and operators that formed the institutional funding network.
Explore 16 nodes ↗Builders of the personal computing industry.
Explore 9 nodes ↗Database and enterprise application builders.
Explore 10 nodes ↗The builders of the networks underneath the web.
Explore 7 nodes ↗The companies that organized and commercialized the early consumer web.
Explore 6 nodes ↗Founders and platforms connecting people online.
Explore 11 nodes ↗Founder-to-investor transitions are traced through dated employment, founding, and partner relationships. An IPO or acquisition is recorded as an event only when the underlying source supports it; alumni membership alone does not prove someone was an early employee or remained through an exit.