June 16, 2026·by Garry Tan

We're excited to announce that Christopher Golda and Grey Baker are joining Y Combinator as General Partners.

Chris and Grey have both been Visiting Partners at YC, where they've already made a big impact working closely with founders across multiple batches. Now, as General Partners, they'll play an even bigger role in selecting, advising, and supporting the companies we back.

Chris co-founded BackType (YC S08), a data infrastructure and analytics company acquired by Twitter in 2011. At Twitter, he launched and ran the Ad Center product, growing revenue to over $1B. Since leaving Twitter, he's been working directly with founders to help them find customers and raise capital, participating in early-stage rounds of companies like Benchling, Coinbase, Stoke, and Supabase. As a Visiting Partner, he's brought that combination of deep technical founder experience and a decade of pattern-matching across hundreds of early-stage companies to the founders he works with.

Grey co-founded Dependabot, a developer tool used by over a million people that was acquired by GitHub in 2019. Before that, he was an early employee at GoCardless (YC S11), joining when it was just six people and leading product and engineering as the company grew to over 100. After GoCardless, Grey cycled 29,000 km around the world, then came back and built Dependabot as a side project that took on a life of its own. He went on to co-found Pincites (YC S23), which was acquired by Filevine. As a Visiting Partner, he's brought a builder's mentality and firsthand experience scaling products from side project to millions of users to every batch he's been part of.

As General Partners, Chris and Grey will work directly with YC founders at every stage of their companies. We're super excited to have them on the team. Welcome, Chris and Grey!