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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

Milestones

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  Y Combinator invested in Highlightcam. (6/1/09)
  Posted 7/28/09 at 10:19pm
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  Y Combinator invested in Bump Technologies. (6/1/09)
  Posted 7/8/09 at 5:09pm
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  Y Combinator invested in RethinkDB. (6/1/09)
  Posted 7/28/09 at 4:47pm
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  Y Combinator invested in FanChatter. (6/1/09)
  Posted 8/1/09 at 3:39pm
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  Y Combinator invested in Directed Edge. (6/1/09)
  Posted 8/6/09 at 1:15am
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  Y Combinator invested in GraffitiGeo. (6/1/09)
  Posted 8/14/09 at 8:41am
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  Y Combinator invested in Listia. (6/09)
  Posted 8/5/09 at 2:32am
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  Y Combinator received $2M in Unattributed funding. (3/16/09)
  Posted 10/26/09 at 12:07pm
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  Y Combinator invested in Foodoro. (1/1/09)
  Posted 3/16/09 at 9:27am
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  Y Combinator invested in Voxli. (1/1/09)
  Posted 3/9/09 at 1:48pm
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  Y Combinator invested in FathomDB. (1/1/09)
  Posted 3/16/09 at 8:15pm
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  Y Combinator invested in CloudKick. (1/1/09)
  Posted 3/16/09 at 7:00pm
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  Y Combinator invested in Echodio. (1/1/09)
  Posted 3/17/09 at 5:19pm
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  Y Combinator invested in ReMail. (1/1/09)
  Posted 5/11/09 at 1:31pm
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  Y Combinator invested in SocialBrowse. (10/08)
  Posted 3/16/09 at 8:17pm
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  Y Combinator invested in WebMynd. (9/1/08)
  Posted 1/27/08 at 11:47pm

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1. YC-Funded Directed Edge Sees A Post-Search Web Where Recommendations Rule (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. YC-Funded GraffitiGeo: Foursquare Meets Yelp, With A Dash Of Augmented Reality (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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6. RethinkDB – A New Kind of Database (rethinkdb.com) [edit]
7. Y Combinator Endorses Bump Technologies In The Quest To Destroy The Business Card (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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9. Y Combinator’s ReMail Finally Brings Full-Text Email Search To The iPhone (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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