Y Combinator (YC) is an American technology
startup accelerator
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launched in March 2005. It has been used to launch more than 3,000 companies,
including
Airbnb
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,
Coinbase
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,
Cruise
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,
DoorDash
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With a 56% mar ...
,
Dropbox
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,
Instacart
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,
Quora
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,
PagerDuty
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,
Reddit
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,
Stripe and
Twitch
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. The combined valuation of the top YC companies was more than $300 billion by January 2021.
The company's accelerator program started in
Boston
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and
Mountain View, expanded to
San Francisco
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in 2019, and has been entirely online since the start of the
COVID-19
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pandemic. ''Forbes'' characterized the company in 2012 as one of the most successful startup accelerators in
Silicon Valley
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.
History
![Paul Graham talking about Prototype Day at Y Combinator Summer 2009](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Paul_Graham_talking_about_Prototype_Day_at_Y_Combinator_Summer_2009.jpg)
Y Combinator was founded in 2005 by
Paul Graham,
Jessica Livingston
Jessica Livingston, born 1971, is an American author and a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator.
She also organized Startup School. Previously, she was the VP of marketing at Adams Harkness Financial Group. She has a B. ...
,
Robert Tappan Morris
Robert Tappan Morris (born November 8, 1965) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the Morris worm in 1988, considered the first computer worm on the Internet.
Morris was prosecuted for releasing the ...
, and
Trevor Blackwell
Trevor Blackwell (born 4 November 1969, in Canada) is a computer programmer, engineer and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley.
Blackwell is a developer of humanoid robots. Dr. Blackwell is the founder and former CEO of Anybots and a partner at ...
.
From 2005 to 2008, one program was in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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, and one was in
Mountain View, California
Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. Named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains, it has a population of 82,376.
Mountain View was integral to the early history and growth of Silicon Valley, and is the ...
. As Y Combinator grew to 40 investments per year, running two programs became too much. In January 2009, Y Combinator announced that the Cambridge program would be closed and all future programs would be in Silicon Valley.
In 2009,
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, and specializes in seed stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private companies across technology sectors. , Sequoia's total a ...
led the $2 million investment round into an entity of Y Combinator to enable it to invest in approximately 60 companies a year. In 2010, Sequoia led an $8.25 million funding round for Y Combinator to further increase the number of startups the company could fund.
In 2011,
Yuri Milner
Yuri Borisovich (Bentsionovich) Milner (russian: Юрий Борисович (Бенционович) Мильнер; born 11 November 1961) is a Soviet-born Israeli entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist. He is a cofounder and former c ...
and SV Angel offered every Y Combinator company a $150,000 convertible note investment. The amount put into each company was changed to $80,000 when Start Fund was renewed.
In September 2013, Y Combinator began funding nonprofit organizations that were accepted into the program after testing the concept with
Watsi
Watsi, legally Watsi, Inc., is a nonprofit healthcare crowdsourcing platform that enables individual donors to directly fund medical care for individuals in developing countries without access to affordable medical care.
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Watsi was ...
.
In 2014,
Sam Altman
Samuel H. Altman ( ; born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger. He is the CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator.
Early life and education
Altman grew up in St. Louis, Missouri; his mothe ...
replaced Graham as president of Y Combinator.
In 2014, Y Combinator began a new deal for startups, offering $150,000 for 7 percent
equity
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.
In 2014, Altman announced a partnership with Transcriptic to provide increased support for Y Combinator's growing community of biotech companies. In 2015, he announced a partnership with Bolt and increased support for hardware companies.
The YC Fellowship Program was announced in July 2015, with the goal of funding companies at the idea or prototype stage.
The first batch of YC Fellowship included 32 companies that received an equity-free grant instead of an investment.
In January 2016, Y Combinator changed the fellowship program, with participating companies receiving $20k investment for a 1.5 percent equity stake. The equity stake is structured as a
convertible security A convertible security is a financial instrument whose holder has the right to convert it into another security of the same issuer. Most convertible securities are convertible bonds or preferred stocks that pay regular interest and can be converted ...
that converts into shares only if a company has an
initial public offering
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(IPO), or a funding event or acquisition that values the company at $100 million or more. The fellowship was discontinued in 2017.
In 2016, Y Combinator announced that YC partners would visit 11 countries to meet with founders and learn more about how they could be helpful to international startup communities. Those 11 countries were
Nigeria
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,
Denmark
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Portugal
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,
Sweden
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,
Germany
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,
Russia
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,
Argentina
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,
Chile
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,
Mexico
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,
Israel
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, and
India
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.
Former Twitter chief financial officer and chief operating officer
Ali Rowghani
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, who was in charge of the YC Continuity Fund when it began, became CEO of YC Continuity.
Michael Seibel
Michael Seibel (born October 7, 1982) is a managing director at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv/Twitch and Socialcam. He first joined Y Combinator in 2013, advising hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting ...
, who co-founded
Justin.tv
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, became CEO of YC Core, the program that
Paul Buchheit
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had run since 2016.
In 2017, Y Combinator began Startup School, an online course that released public videos and coached individual startups. More than 1500 startups graduated the program in its first year.
In 2018, Y Combinator announced a new batch of startup school. After a software glitch, all 15,000 startups that applied to the program were accepted, only to learn a few hours later that they had been rejected. But the ensuing outcry led Y Combinator to change course again and decided over an official blog to accept all those 15,000 companies. Now, every company is accepted to join YC Startup School without any restrictions.
In 2019,
Geoff Ralston
Geoff Ralston is the former President of Y Combinator. He was the CEO of La La Media, Inc., developer of Lala, a web browser-based music distribution site. Prior to Lala, Ralston worked for Yahoo!, where he was Vice President of Engineering and Ch ...
replaced Altman as president of Y Combinator.
The summer 2020 batch was conducted remotely via
videotelephony
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due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
In the summer of 2022, Y Combinator intentionally shrunk the number of startups within its accelerator down 40% from 414 companies to 250 companies.
Programs
Y Combinator interviews and selects two or more batches of companies per year. The companies receive total of $500,000
seed money
Seed money, sometimes known as seed funding or seed capital, is a form of securities offering in which an investor invests capital in a startup company in exchange for an equity stake or convertible note stake in the company. The term ''seed'' su ...
as well as advice, and connections. The companies receive $125,000 on a post-money
safe
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in return for 7%
equity
Equity may refer to:
Finance, accounting and ownership
* Equity (finance), ownership of assets that have liabilities attached to them
** Stock, equity based on original contributions of cash or other value to a business
** Home equity, the dif ...
and $375,000 on an uncapped safe with a
Most Favored Nation (MFN) provision. Non-profits receive $100,000 donation. The program includes "office hours", where startup founders meet individually and group meetings. Founders also participate in weekly dinners where guests from the
Silicon Valley
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ecosystem (successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, etc.) speak to the founders.
Y Combinator's motto is "Make Something People Want." The program teaches founders to market their product, team and market, refining their business model, achieving
product/market fit
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Product/market fit has been identified as a first step to building a successful venture in which the company meets early adopt ...
, and scaling the startup into a
high growth business, etc. The program ends with Demo Day, where startups present their business and sometimes technology to potential investors.
The Y combinator operates an additional program and fund designed to support and invest in startups which have already graduated from the main accelerator program. The YC Growth Program and YC Continuity fund are operated by the same team and focus on helping fast growing startups which are approaching 50 employees, and startups raising their Series B funding of $20 million to $100 million.
Y Combinator has introduced additional programs since 2015, including:
* In July 2015, Y Combinator introduced the YC Fellowship Program aimed at companies at an earlier stage than the main program.
* In October 2015, Y Combinator introduced the YC Continuity Fund. The fund allows Y Combinator to make
pro rata
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investments in their alumni companies with valuations under $300 million. Y Combinator will also consider leading or participating in later stage growth financing rounds for YC companies.
* Nonprofit research lab YC Research was announced in October 2015. Researchers are paid as full-time employees and can receive equity in Y Combinator.
OpenAI
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company conducts research in the field of AI with the stated goal of promo ...
was the first project undertaken by YC Research, and in January 2016 a second study on
basic income
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was also announced. Another project is research on new cities. Australian quantum physicist
Michael Nielsen
Michael Aaron Nielsen (born January 4, 1974) is a quantum physicist, science writer, and computer programming researcher living in San Francisco.
Work
In 1998, Nielsen received his PhD in physics from the University of New Mexico. In 2004, he wa ...
is a research fellow at YC Research since 2017.
* In October 2015, YC introduced YC Research to fund long-term fundamental research. YC President
Sam Altman
Samuel H. Altman ( ; born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger. He is the CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator.
Early life and education
Altman grew up in St. Louis, Missouri; his mothe ...
donated $10m.
*During 2017–2019, YC launched Startup School, the Series A program, the YC Growth program, Work at a Startup, and YC China.
*In March 2019, it was reported that Y Combinator was moving headquarters to San Francisco.
As of late 2021, Y Combinator had invested in >3,000 companies,
most of which are for-profit. Non-profit organizations can also participate in the main YC program. Few non-profits have been accepted in the last years, among them
Watsi
Watsi, legally Watsi, Inc., is a nonprofit healthcare crowdsourcing platform that enables individual donors to directly fund medical care for individuals in developing countries without access to affordable medical care.
Background
Watsi was ...
,
Women Who Code
Women Who Code (WWCode) is an international non-profit organization that provides services for women pursuing technology careers and a job board for companies seeking coding professionals. The company aims to provide an avenue into the technolo ...
,
New Story,
SIRUM,
Zidisha
Zidisha allows people to lend small amounts of money directly to entrepreneurs in developing countries. It is the first peer-to-peer microlending service to link borrowers and lenders across international borders without a local microfinance ins ...
,
80,000 Hours
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, and
Our World in Data
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It is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a re ...
.
People
Y Combinator was founded in March 2005 by
Paul Graham,
Jessica Livingston
Jessica Livingston, born 1971, is an American author and a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator.
She also organized Startup School. Previously, she was the VP of marketing at Adams Harkness Financial Group. She has a B. ...
,
Robert Morris and
Trevor Blackwell
Trevor Blackwell (born 4 November 1969, in Canada) is a computer programmer, engineer and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley.
Blackwell is a developer of humanoid robots. Dr. Blackwell is the founder and former CEO of Anybots and a partner at ...
.
In 2010, Kirsty Nathoo joined as an accountant and became CFO in 2012.
In early 2010, Harj Taggar joined as an advisor. In September 2010,
Alexis Ohanian
Alexis Kerry Ohanian ( hy, Ալեքսիս Քերի Օհանյան; born April 24, 1983) is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is best known as the co-founder and executive chairman of the social media site Reddit along with Stev ...
joined. In November 2010,
Paul Buchheit
Paul T. Buchheit is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur who created Gmail. He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail. He also suggested Google's former company motto ''Don't be evil'' in a 2000 ...
and Harj Taggar were named partners. In 2015, Taggar left YC.
In January 2011,
Garry Tan
Garry Tan (; born 1981) is the founder of Initialized Capital. He previously co-founded Posterous and Posthaven. He was also an early employee at Palantir Technologies, and a partner at Y Combinator.
Early life and education
Tan was born in 198 ...
joined YC, first as designer-in-residence and later as partner.
He left YC in November 2015.
Later in 2011,
Aaron Iba
Aaron Iba (born June 18, 1983) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He is known for co-authoring Etherpad, co-founding AppJet, and for his work as a partner in Y Combinator. Iba graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Techno ...
joined as a partner.
In February 2014, Sam Altman became president of Y Combinator.
Michael Seibel
Michael Seibel (born October 7, 1982) is a managing director at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv/Twitch and Socialcam. He first joined Y Combinator in 2013, advising hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting ...
joined Y Combinator as part-time partner in January 2013 and later became a full-time Partner in 2014.
The company includes managing directors, group partners, visiting group partners and team members as listed on its website.
In 2018, Y Combinator announced that
Lu Qi, a former CEO of
Baidu
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and
Bing
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Bing may also refer to:
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, would join the company as CEO of YC China. Y Combinator announced that Lu left YC in November 2019 and that it had decided not to pursue a program in China.
In March 2019, Y Combinator announced its president Sam Altman would be transitioning into a Chairman position to focus more on
OpenAI
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company conducts research in the field of AI with the stated goal of promo ...
and
Geoff Ralston
Geoff Ralston is the former President of Y Combinator. He was the CEO of La La Media, Inc., developer of Lala, a web browser-based music distribution site. Prior to Lala, Ralston worked for Yahoo!, where he was Vice President of Engineering and Ch ...
would be the new president.
Controversies
Y Combinator has been blamed for its encouragement of the
ageism
Ageism, also spelled agism, is discrimination against individuals or groups on the basis of their age. The term was coined in 1969 by Robert Neil Butler to describe discrimination against seniors, and patterned on sexism and racism. Butler defi ...
culture in Silicon Valley. Paul Graham said in 2005 that people over 38 lacked the energy to launch startups. It was also at a Y Combinator event, the 2007 Startup School, that
Mark Zuckerberg
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said, "Young people are just smarter". Research on this issue published by ''
Harvard Business Review
''Harvard Business Review'' (''HBR'') is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University. ''HBR'' is published six times a year and is headquartered in Brighton, Massach ...
'' found Y Combinator's views to be misguided, as the average age of a successful startup founder was found to be 45 years old.
Open Research
The Human Advancement Research Community (HARC) project was set up with the "mission to ensure human wisdom exceeds human power". The project was inspired by a conversation between Sam Altman and
Alan Kay
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) published by the Association for Computing Machinery 2012 is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) d ...
. Its projects include modelling, visualizing and teaching software, as well as programming languages. Members included Alan Kay,
Bret Victor
Bret Victor is an interface designer, computer scientist, and electrical engineer known for his talks on the future of technology. , he worked as a researcher at Dynamicland.
Career
Bret Victor earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engin ...
, and
Vi Hart
Victoria Hart (born 1988), commonly known as Vi Hart (), is an American mathematician and YouTuber. They describe themselves as a "recreational mathemusician" and are well-known for creating mathematical videos on YouTube. Hart founded the virt ...
.
Patrick Scaglia
Patrick Scaglia is chairman of the Y Combinator (company), Y Combinator Research's project Human Advancement Research Community (HARC). Before that, he was co-director of Foundry@CITRIS and a Hewlett Packard executive for twelve years.
References< ...
was chair of HARC and was listed as an advisor in 2017. YC Research disaffiliated with Y Combinator and now operates as Open Research.
See also
*
Hacker News
Hacker News (sometimes abbreviated as HN) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by the investment fund and startup incubator Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "any ...
*
List of Y Combinator startups
The following notable startups have completed the Y Combinator Accelerator program.
Mike Isaac described Y Combinator as: "Y Combinator accepts batches of start-ups twice a year in a semester-like system and gives them money, advice and access to ...
*
Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator
*
Techstars
*
500 Startups
500 Global (previously 500 Startups) is an early-stage venture fund and seed accelerator founded in 2010 by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai. The fund admitted a first "class" of twelve startups to its incubator office in Mountain View, California ...
*
HighTechXL
HighTechXL is a deep-tech venture builder, located in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. HighTechXL was established in 2014-15 on the High Tech Campus Eindhoven. HighTechXL is supported by the Eindhoven Startup Alliance, a dedicated partnership including ...
References
External links
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