Y Combinator has a new AI track, and wants startups building 'robot factory' tech to apply

YC gathers founders from different industries together in each investment cycle. The organization hosts interdisciplinary demo days and "dinners," which are more like half-day sessions for knowledge sharing across founder teams, with big names in tech coming in to speak as well. YC even started mixing non-profits alongside for-profits in 2013. However, the trend across accelerators and early stage funds in recent years has been to home in on a particular industry or technology type. The "accelerator VC" SOSV, runs programs for very early stage biotech-, hardware-, food-, mobile and smart city-startups; Acceleprise and AngelPad back b2b startups only; Yield Lab, Thrive and Terra are agriculture tech accelerators; while Starburst and LightSpeed Innovations work with aerospace and aviation startups.