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One problem with these stats is that they're counting the 15% of founders who are Latino as non-white. However, in countries like Brasil and especially Mexico, a large portion of the people who are able to get tech startups up and running are white people, not indigenous, mestizo, or black people. Mexico in particular has a huge problem with the elites almost all being white. Y Combinator is likely padding its diversity numbers by recruiting rich European and Mediterranean elites from Latin America. I'm not saying they definitely are, but it's very likely.

I do think it'd be more accurate to say "white or Asian" rather than just "white" when describing the bulk of Y Combinator participants. Asian people, though discriminated against in many ways in US office settings, are still firmly a part of Silicon Valley culture at all levels.