Datasets:

calebheinzman
/

YC_News

license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
  - text-classification
language:
  - en
tags:
  - ycombinator
  - news
  - press
  - startup
  - announcements
pretty_name: Y Combinator News Mentions
size_categories:
  - n<1K

Y Combinator News Mentions — Preview

A small preview of news and press items mentioning YC companies. Useful for testing monitoring pipelines and enrichment flows. Get the full dataset with extended coverage and refreshes at https://www.thedataoutlet.com.

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What you get in this preview

One CSV under 1,000 rows
Article metadata, company mapping, timestamps, and links

File list

YC_News.csv

Quickstart

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("csv", data_files="YC_News.csv", split="train")
print(ds[0])

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("YC_News.csv")
df.head()

Suggested schema

Column	Type	Notes
Title	string	Article title
Outlet	string	Publisher name
Author	string	If parsed
Datetime	string	ISO timestamp
Url	string	Article link
Company	string	Mapped YC company
Batch	string	W/S code if known
Category	string	Funding, product, hiring, etc.
Country	string	Outlet or company region
Summary	string	Short abstract if present
Image	string	Image URL if present
Date Accessed	string	Collection timestamp

Uses

News monitoring for portfolio ops
Lead list enrichment and alerts
LLM-powered IE experiments on startup news

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License and terms

Evaluation only. No redistribution. No resale.
Terms apply as listed on the purchase page.

Support

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