Venture capital companies that invest in seed stage start-ups: Y Combinator

Y Combinator Management, LLC, founded in March 2005 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, is an entrepreneurial accelerator/incubator that invests in various entrepreneurial companies twice a year Plug and Play and Techstars The mode is similar.

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Y Combinator Management company encyclopedia

Y Combinator (YC for short), founded in March 2005, is a venture capital company that invests in seed stage start-ups. Unlike traditional venture capital firms, Y Combinator is more like an incubator for the team of start-ups and a "training camp" aimed at incubating start-ups; They will not only provide a certain amount of seed funds to start-ups, but also give them entrepreneurial advice. They will hold two three-month "courses" (held in Mountain View, California) twice a year, so that the participating entrepreneurial teams can enhance their executive ability. Y Combinator will charge an average of 6% of the total net asset value of the startup as a return. The article originates from the home of American stocks | encyclopedia of American stocks | account opening and investment of American and Hong Kong stocks- https://www.mg21.com/ycombinator.html

Y Combinator operates in a unique way of investment. Wired magazine calls Y Combinator "a training camp for start-ups" and "a prestigious plan for budding digital entrepreneurs"; Paul Graham, the founder of the company, is also known as "the mentor of the new generation of entrepreneurs". The article originates from the home of American stocks | encyclopedia of American stocks | account opening and investment of American and Hong Kong stocks- https://www.mg21.com/ycombinator.html

So far, Y Combinator has invested in more than 2000 companies, including Stripe 、 ClearTax 、 Brex 、 Alpaca 、 Axoni 、 Airbnb 、 Alto Pharmacy 、 Clever 、 CaptivateIQ 、 Apollo Graph 、 Airbyte 、 Ajaib 、 Apollo.io 、 Cointracker 、 Coursedog 、 Cruise Automation 、 DoorDash 、 Coinbase 、 Convoy 、 Embark 、 EquipmentShare 、 Goat Group 、 Faire 、 Filecoin 、 FrontApp 、 Heap 、 Instacart 、 Observe.AI 、 OpenAI 、 Dropbox 、 Eight Sleep 、 Fivetran 、 Frubana 、 KhataBook 、 Goldbelly 、 GrubMarket 、 Gusto 、 GitLab 、 GO1 Proprietary 、 Guesty 、 Human Interest 、 Imbue 、 InfluxData 、 Instawork 、 Le Tote 、 May Mobility 、 Monzo 、 Mixpanel 、 Nowports 、 Nova Credit 、 Odeko 、 Optimizely 、 OpenSea 、 Outschool 、 People.ai 、 Qventus 、 Razorpay 、 Rescale 、 Retool 、 Relativity Space 、 RevenueCat 、 Repl.it 、 Rippling 、 Rigetti 、 Groww 、 Deel 、 Bitmovin 、 Amplitude 、 ScaleAI 、 Sift 、 Salt Security 、 Sendbird 、 ShipBob 、 SingleStore 、 Solugen 、 SmartAsset 、 Spenmo 、 Snapdocs 、 Stoke Space 、 Tempo 、 Truepill 、 Vanta 、 Webflow 、 Wright Electric 、 Proxy 、 Lattice 、 Loom 、 Titan 、 TRM Labs 、 Meesho 、 Memebox 、 Trove 、 Truebill 、 Twitch 、 VergeSense 、 Vendr 、 Vicarious 、 Vouch 、 Weave Communications 、 xendit 、 Yassir 、 Whatnot 、 Zeitview 、 Zepto 、 Zip and Reddit 。 The article originates from the home of American stocks | encyclopedia of American stocks | account opening and investment of American and Hong Kong stocks- https://www.mg21.com/ycombinator.html

As of January 2021, the total valuation of YC Investment Company has exceeded $300 billion. The article originates from the home of American stocks | encyclopedia of American stocks | account opening and investment of American and Hong Kong stocks- https://www.mg21.com/ycombinator.html

Y Combinator Management features: The article originates from the home of American stocks | encyclopedia of American stocks | account opening and investment of American and Hong Kong stocks- https://www.mg21.com/ycombinator.html

Compared with other traditional venture capital companies, Y Combinator only provides relatively little capital to its investment target companies. If there is only one founder, they will invest 14000 dollars; The two will invest 17000 dollars; Three or more will invest $20000. This shows the theory put forward by Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator: freedom in today Software In the era of Web 2.0 and Web pages, the cost of finding IT start-ups has been greatly reduced. At the same time, Y Combinator believes that when a startup starts its business with only a small amount of capital, the entrepreneurial team will gain relatively large corporate operation power from investors; This is also Graham's personal philosophy: generally, the purpose of investment companies is to earn money from start-ups, but Paul prefers to assist entrepreneurial teams and help programmers regain dominance from them. The article originates from the home of American stocks | encyclopedia of American stocks | account opening and investment of American and Hong Kong stocks- https://www.mg21.com/ycombinator.html

Y Combinator will hold a three-month "course" twice a year, and receive counseling during the course. In addition, Y Combinator will also hold a dinner party once a week, and all the participating teams of the course will get together to share their feelings and experience, or invite successful entrepreneurs to give a speech; In addition, there is also a meeting called "Office Hour". The participating team needs to directly talk with the founder Paul Graham or the partner of Y Combinator, and the interviewed team should be subject to strict inspection. At the end of the course, Y Combinator will set a day as the demo day, where angel investors and other venture capital companies in Silicon Valley will be present to watch the product demos of various start-ups. The investors present include large-scale investment companies such as Sequoia Capital , and even some individual angel investors such as American actor Ashton Kutcher. The article originates from the home of American stocks | encyclopedia of American stocks | account opening and investment of American and Hong Kong stocks- https://www.mg21.com/ycombinator.html

Y Combinator will accept applications twice a year: each application team needs to submit a written plan, and the team needs to fly to Mountain View headquarters in person to accept a ten minute interview. Y Combinator will fund the team's travel expenses. The company will select dozens of teams from numerous applications to the round. According to Graham, on October 11, 2011 Twitter The personal page shows that Y Combinator receives more than one application every minute, which shows the number of entrepreneurial teams who want to join Y Combinator. The acceptance rate of Y Combinator's application for admission to each round of courses is about 2.5 to 3.5 percent. The article originates from the home of American stocks | encyclopedia of American stocks | account opening and investment of American and Hong Kong stocks- https://www.mg21.com/ycombinator.html

Y Combinator Management History Encyclopedia

• Y Combinator was founded in March 2005. It was jointly founded by Paul Graham, a famous programmer and blogger, and Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell, and his wife Jessica Livingston, the founders of the network application Viaweb. The name of the company is based on the theory of functional programming "Y Combinator".
• From its inception to 2008, Y Combinator has held courses in two American cities: Cambridge, Massachusetts and Mountain View, California in turn; However, since January 2009, all future course locations will be permanently transferred to Silicon Valley.
• In 2009, Y Combinator and venture capital companies Sequoia Capital And several angel investors such as Ron Conway, Paul Buchheit and Aydin Senkut, etc., to invest more funds in the way of partners for young start-up teams. From 2011, a few years later, Russian venture investor Yuri Milner and Silicon Valley small venture capital companies SV Angel Invest $150000 in convertible notes for each startup in Y Combinator.
• In 2014, the founder Paul Graham announced his resignation, and Sam Altman will take over as the president of Y Combinator. In the same year, Altman announced a "new deal" for YC start-ups, which purchased 7% of the shares at a price of 150000 dollars.
• At the end of 2014, Sam Altman announced that he had established a partnership with Transcriptic, thinking that Y Combinator's growing Biotechnology Company The community provides more support. Then in 2015, he announced that Bolt Establish partnerships and increase support for hardware companies.
• YC Fellowship Program announced in July 2015 that its goal is to provide funds for the company at the conception or prototype stage. The first batch of YC Fellowship includes 32 companies that have received non equity grants rather than investments.
• In January 2016, Y Combinator announced the second version of the Fellowship Plan, and the participating companies obtained an investment of 20000 dollars to obtain 1.5% equity. The equity structure is convertible securities, and the initial public offering is only conducted in the company（ IPO ）Or when the valuation of the company reaches or exceeds US $100 million.
• In September 2016, Sam Altman, then CEO, announced that YC Fellowship Program would be canceled.
• On August 11, 2016, Y Combinator announced that YC partners will visit 11 countries/regions to meet with the founders and learn more about how they can help the international entrepreneurial community. The 11 countries are Nigeria, Denmark, Portugal, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Israel and India.
• In September 2016, Y Combinator announced that its CEO Altman would leave Y Combinator and become the president of YC Group, including Y Combinator. Twitter Ali Rowghani, former CFO and COO, served as the CEO of YC Continuity; Michael Seibel, the co-founder of Justin. tv, is the new CEO of YC Core. Paul Buchheit has been responsible for this project since 2016.
• In 2017, Y Combinator announced the Startup School, which is an online course, released public videos, and also guided larger individual start-ups to replace scholarships. In the first year of the program, 1584 start-ups graduated.
• On May 20, 2019, Sam Altman announced his resignation, and Jeff Ralston will take over as the president of Y Combinator.
• By the end of 2019, Y Combinator had invested in more than 2000 companies, most of which were for profit.
• On April 20, 2020, Michael Seibel announced that due to Covid-19 Pandemic, the summer party in 2020 will be totally out of reach. This includes batch interviews, office hours, evening conversations and the whole batch of parties.

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