YZi Labs Announces 24 Early Projects for EASY Residency Season 4

The signal here is the scale of early-stage funnel-building rather than any single project: a cohort this size, funded uniformly, suggests a deliberate bet on breadth over concentrated conviction, which is a different posture from the smaller, more curated batches typical of residency programs. It matters most to founders still pre-product, for whom this kind of standardized check plus program support is often the only accessible entry point. Whether the cohort model produces follow-on traction at a rate that justifies the volume is the open question.