Pre-Incubator: How To Get Into Y Combinator? (Leo Kankkunen)

​Y Combinator is the world’s best-known startup accelerator, and getting in is famously hard. What do they actually look for?

​In this session, Leo Kankkunen, founder of Daivin and Y Combinator alum from 2026, shares how he got in. You’ll learn what makes a strong YC application, how the selection works and what founders can learn from it, whether or not you ever apply.

​Speaker: Leo Kankkunen, Founder & CEO at DAIVIN!, building tankless dive gear to reduce reliance on heavy, pressurized gas tanks, Y Combinator 2026, /leo-kankkunen

​Who is this for? Anyone with startup ambitions, from first-time ideators to teams already building.

​This session is part of Startup Journey Pre-Incubator, a free series of workshops by Boost Turku that helps you find, test and sharpen your startup idea before applying to Startup Journey in January. Join one session or all five.

​This session is online on Zoom.