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Y Combinator

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Y Combinator is a venture fund which focuses on seed investments to startup companies. It offers financing as well as business consulting along with other opportunities to 2-4 person companies looking to take an idea to a product. Y Combinator looks for companies with “good” ideas over companies with experience and a business model. The company made its first investments in Summer 2005.

Y Combinator selects companies to finance and consult with twice a year. They are located in Mountain View, CA. Companies that they decide to fund generally receive $5,000 plus an additional $5,000 per founder and are required to relocate to Y Combinator’s destination for the following three months. In return, Y Combinator asks for 2-10% ownership, generally considered fairly steep considering the small investment. However, Y Combinator argues that this seed money and mentorship is crucial to for the success of small startups.

Y Combinator continues to grow, with a stated target of 60 funded companies for the Winter 2010 session.

Successful exits by Y Combinator funded companies include Reddit, Omnisio and Zenter.

Other successful companies that went through Y Combinator include Loopt, Justin.tv, Weebly and Scribd.

Near the end of each session, companies pitch their products on “Demo Day” to investors in hopes of receiving further funding.

Coverage of Previous Demo Days:

• Summer ‘09
• Winter ‘09
• Winter ‘08
• Summer ‘07
• Winter ‘07

Recent Milestones

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  Y Combinator invested in Strikingly. (4/29/13)
  Posted 1/13/13 at 12:23am via finsmes.com
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  Y Combinator invested in CrowdMed. (4/16/13)
  Posted 4/20/13 at 4:24am via techcrunch.com
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  Y Combinator invested in Balanced. (4/3/13)
  Posted 3/29/13 at 3:18am via finsmes.com
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  Y Combinator invested in Prizeo. (4/1/13)
  Posted 4/16/13 at 9:34am via techcrunch.com
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  Y Combinator invested in Amiato. (3/15/13)
  Posted 3/26/13 at 6:45pm via techcrunch.com
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  Y Combinator invested in Microryza. (3/5/13)
  Posted 3/5/13 at 11:30am via techcrunch.com
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  Y Combinator invested in The Muse. (1/22/13)
  Posted 1/22/13 at 8:16pm via allthingsd.com
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  Y Combinator invested in PayTango. (1/1/13)
  Posted 4/23/13 at 12:26pm
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  Y Combinator invested in BuildZoom. (12/1/12)
  Posted 1/10/11 at 12:54pm via techcrunch.com
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  Y Combinator invested in Terascore. (12/1/12)
  Posted 3/19/13 at 3:11pm
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  Y Combinator invested in Amicus. (11/13/12)
  Posted 11/13/12 at 2:08pm via techcrunch.com
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  Y Combinator invested in Submittable. (11/10/12)
  Posted 11/10/12 at 4:12am via pandodaily.com
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  Y Combinator invested in Lawdingo. (11/3/12)
  Posted 11/3/12 at 3:15am via finsmes.com
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  Y Combinator invested in Referly. (10/15/12)
  Posted 10/15/12 at 7:53am via techcrunch.com
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  Y Combinator invested in LendUp. (10/10/12)
  Posted 10/10/12 at 9:30pm via techcrunch.com
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  Y Combinator invested in MyVR. (9/28/12)
  Posted 9/28/12 at 3:21am via techcrunch.com

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Screenshots

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Above: Y Combinator Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 7/2/12

Products

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Hacker News

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Website	news.ycombinator.com
Stage	Live
Launch Date	February, 2007

Hacker News is a user driven social content site focused around startups and hacking. Nearly identical to reddit, Hacker News allows users to share, vote and comment on stories. Hacker News fills a unique spot in the social media arena through its niche content focus and by allowing its users to get advice from the community. Many of its users are involved with, or interested in, the Y Combinator incubator community.

Above: Hacker News Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 3/11/08

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2. With $1.1 Million In Funding, YC-Backed CrowdMed Launches To Crowdsource Medical Diagnoses (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Balanced Closes $3.4M Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
4. Y Combinator-Backed Prizeo Helps Celebrities Tap Their Fans For Charity Fundraising (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. With $2 Million From Andreessen And Others, YC’s Amiato Launches To Bring Big Data A/B Testing With SQL To All (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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7. The Muse Career Site Raises $1.2M (allthingsd.com) [edit]
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13. Lawdingo Raises $100K in Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
14. YC-Backed Referly Raises $1M To Bring Affiliate Commerce To Everyone (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. LendUp Raises Cash From Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures And Others To Disrupt Payday Loans (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. MyVR Raises $1.4M From YC, SV Angel, Chris Dixon To Attack The $85B Vacation Rental Industry (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. Coinbase, First Crowd Funded Bitcoin Company, Raises Over $600K (privateinternetaccess.com) [edit]
18. OrderAhead Nabs $2.3M From Adam D’Angelo, Matrix, Eric Schmidt For Ordering On The Go (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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37. YC-Funded Embark Is Now Plotting Two Million Transit Trips A Month (techcrunch.com) [edit]
38. Andreessen Horowitz, Salesforce Put $1.4M In Real-Time Messaging Infrastructure Startup Flotype (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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82. GinzaMetrics Aims To Bring Simplicity To SEO Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]
83. AdGrok Simplifies Keyword Bidding And More On Google AdWords (techcrunch.com) [edit]
84. Crocodoc Raises Cash, Upgrades Web-based Document Review Service (xconomy.com) [edit]
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102. Y Combinator's Mixpanel Takes Stat Tracking Beyond Google Analytics (techcrunch.com) [edit]
103. YC-Funded Directed Edge Sees A Post-Search Web Where Recommendations Rule (techcrunch.com) [edit]
104. YC-Funded GraffitiGeo: Foursquare Meets Yelp, With A Dash Of Augmented Reality (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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110. Y Combinator Endorses Bump Technologies In The Quest To Destroy The Business Card (techcrunch.com) [edit]
111. YC-Funded HighlightCam Makes It Easy To Remotely Watch Babies, Pets And Burglars (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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113. Calling All Foodies: Y Combinator's Foodoro Launches Online Farmers Market (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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90% of Y Combinator Startups Have Already Accepted The $150k Start Fund Offer (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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