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Y Combinator

Company nameY Combinator
Company typeLimited liability company
IndustryVenture Capital
Founded2005
HeadquartersMountain View, CA
ProductsInvestments

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Y Combinator is an American seed-stage startup funding firm, started in 2005 by Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell, and Jessica Livingston. Y Combinator provides seed money, advice, and connections at two 3-month programs per year. In exchange, they take an average of about 6% of the company's equity.

Unusual among startup funding firms, Y Combinator provides very little money-$17,000 for startups with 2 founders and $20,000 for those with 3 or more. This reflects Graham's conviction that between free software, dynamic languages, the web, and Moore's Law, the cost of founding a startup has greatly decreased.

The firm is named after a construct in the theory of functional programming called the "Y combinator".

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Free Internet is just what some start-ups need - Boston Globe Tweet this news
Boston Globe---...- or equity-based (eg Betaworks, TechStars, -Y Combinator-). Regardless of format, incubators provide a community for entrepreneurs in which to share ideas, ... - Date : Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:21:12 GMT+00:00
Mixpanel's Analytics Now Tracking 1 Billion Actions A Month - TechCrunch (blog) Tweet this news
TechCrunch (blog)--Mixpanel, an analytics-focused startup whose backers include -Y Combinator-, Michael Birch, and Max Levchin, ... - Date : Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:48:48 GMT+00:00
Rethinking the Whiteboard - New York Times (blog) Tweet this news
New York Times (blog)--It didn't hurt that Jason Wilk, 25, a founder and a chief executive of WhiteyBoard in Los Angeles, was a -Y Combinator--winning entrepreneur before ... - Date : Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:51:36 GMT+00:00
Y Combinator Hosts a Job Fair for Startups Tomorrow - ReadWriteWeb (blog) Tweet this news
ReadWriteWeb (blog)---Y Combinator- is sponsoring an event tomorrow night that seeks to address these issues. "Work at a Startup" is a job fair, of sorts, where over 30 startup ... - Date : Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:26:29 GMT+00:00
Stanford Students Build Their Own Y Combinator - TechCrunch (blog) Tweet this news
TechCrunch (blog)--by Guest Author on Jun 10, 2010 STANFORD, CA�Here on campus, a couple of undergrads successfully built their own -Y Combinator-. It launches today. ... - Date : Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:54:51 GMT+00:00
Y Combinator Gives A Crash Course On What It's Like To 'Work At A Startup' - TechCrunch (blog) Tweet this news
TechCrunch (blog)--Tonight at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, -Y Combinator- invited dozens of programmers to a new event called ... - Date : Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:46:04 GMT+00:00
HeyZap Lands Another $3 Million In Funding - TechCrunch (blog) Tweet this news
TechCrunch (blog)--HeyZap previously received funding from -Y Combinator-, followed by a $650K seed round from Union Square Ventures, Joshua Schachter, and other angels in May ... - Date : Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:19:58 GMT+00:00
Vanedge $100-million digital media fund a small step forward, insiders say - The Wire Report Tweet this news
The Wire Report--At a Bootup camp similar to that offered by -Y Combinator- in the United States, Robinson and his partners planned to give individual help to seven firms ... - Date : Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:27:43 GMT+00:00
Is “Remarkable Indonesia” the New “Incredible India” for Investors? - TechCrunch (blog) Tweet this news
TechCrunch (blog)---...- like India and China: A -Y---Combinator--style incubator that could help Indonesian entrepreneurs make sense of the pitfalls of modern startup life, ... - Date : Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:14:55 GMT+00:00
Boston College Venture Competition produces Silicon Valley startups - San Francisco Chronicle (blog) Tweet this news
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)--The second company is Wakemate, which was funded by -Y Combinator- (as was WePay). Wakemate produces a cell phone accessory that "will analyze your sleep to ... - Date : Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:43:11 GMT+00:00

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