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What does Y Combinator invest in?
Y Combinator invests most often at Seed and Pre-seed (61% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Startups.
Y Combinator highlights
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1,051 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Pre-seed: 61% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 1,835 rounds, median $500K
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117 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Four times a year we invest in a large number of startups.From their own website
- Type
- Accelerator (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $500K – $500K as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- Startups
- Based in
- Mountain View, United States
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first6,410 appearances
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823 rounds
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An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration4 named
CLCarolynn LevyGc; Y Combinator Management, LLCiForm ADV
GTGarry TanCEO/PresidentiForm ADV
JSJessica Shaw LivingstonDirector; Y Combinator Management, LLCiForm ADV
KLKirsty Louise NathooCFO; Y Combinator Management, LLCiForm ADV
We also hold 58 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$22Bgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
1+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Y Combinator Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 171730
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 4 we have independently watched raise
PaulgrahamStartup SchoolTectonicdefenseTheinformation
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed117 in all
Citus DataBought by MicrosoftUndisclosedJan 2019
CoreOSBought by Redhat$250MJan 2018
bop.fmBought by LifeLockUndisclosedOct 2015
FOBOBought by Gone!UndisclosedOct 2015
DataRankBought by Simply MeasuredUndisclosedOct 2015
AlphaDraftBought by FanDuelUndisclosedSept 2015
FutureAdvisorBought by BlackRockUndisclosedAug 2015
Standard TreasuryBought by Silicon Valley BankUndisclosedAug 2015
ComposeBought by IBM (International Business Machines)UndisclosedJul 2015
SHIFTBought by Brand Networks$50MMay 2015
WeilosBought by Weight Watchers InternationalUndisclosedApr 2015
ReadyForZeroBought by AvantUndisclosedMar 2015
Launchpad ToysBought by GoogleUndisclosedFeb 2015
ScreenheroBought by SlackUndisclosedJan 2015
The latest 20 here. An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.