Who is Harshita Arora? Class 9 school dropout from UP who became Y Combinator’s youngest General Partner
Harshita Arora, a 24-year-old from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, has become one of the youngest General Partners at Y Combinator, a prominent Silicon Valley startup accelerator. She achieved this after joining Y Combinator as a Visiting Partner and guiding early-stage founders during the Summer 2025 batch.
Harshita Arora, 24, from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, has become Y Combinator's youngest General Partner. She joined Y Combinator as a Visiting Partner less than a year ago and guided early-stage founders during the Summer 2025 batch. Harshita dropped out of school in Class 9 to focus on coding and programming. She was introduced to programming at 13 and was influenced by Paul Graham's essays on startups and creativity. Harshita attended a training program at Salesforce in Bengaluru and a competitive entrepreneurship program at MIT in the US. Her parents initially struggled to understand her decision to leave school but eventually accepted it. As a General Partner, Harshita will work with startups at different stages and help founders build and grow their companies.
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