Y Combinator (YC Core)
Investor - Accelerator
Overview
Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups.
Country: United States
Founded: 2005
Headquarters: 320 Pioneer Way Mountain View, CA 94041 USA
Investment Strategy
Geography
- North America
Sector Focus
- Marketplace Lending
- Funding Platforms
- WealthTech
- Payments and Remittances
- Data and Analytics
- Cryptocurrencies
- Real Estate
Investment Stage
- Seed
Summary
Y Combinator provides seed funding for startups. Seed funding is the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays startups’ expenses while they’re getting started.
Some companies may need no more than seed funding. Others will go through several rounds.
Y Combinator’s goal is to get startups through the first phase, in order to introduce them to later stage investors—or occasionally even acquirers.
Y Combinator is now accelerating over 80 companies per cycle. In addition, Y Combinator offers a new service called YC Fellowship. Companies that are apart of YC Fellowship will benefit from acceleration on a smaller scale. YC Fellowship provides resources and connections to involved companies, but is less of a commitment than the core program.
Investments
Date
Name
Size
Round
Co-Investors
Sector
Country
IQBOXY
Seed
United States
OnboardIQ
Series A
Commerce Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Crosslink Capital, SoftTech VC, Origin Ventures
Infrastructure and Enterprise Software
United States
FlexReceipts
Venture
PJC , Struck Capital , Synchrony Financial
Point of Sale
United States
Truebill
Seed
Signatures Capital , David Marcus , Hiten Shah, Bobby Yazdani
Invoincing
United States
Lendedu
Seed
Marketplace Lending
United States
Paystack
Seed
Payments & Remittances
Nigeria
PocketSuite
Seed
Infrastructure & Enterprise Software
United States
HoneyInsured
Seed
InsureTech
United States
WorldCover
Seed
500 Startups
InsureTech
United States
Payable
Seed
Freestyle Capital , Haystack , Lerer Hippeau Ventures , Moment Ventures, Redpoint, Rick Marini, Rothenberg Ventures, Y Combinator, General Catalyst Partners, Sherpa Capital
Remittances
United States
Tenant Turner
Seed
Lighthouse Labs , Triad Retail Media , Altron, Jim Cheng
Real Estate
United States
OpenInvest
Seed
Investment Platforms
United States
Eligible
Seed
Y Combinator , Raj Sandhu , Deerfield , Esther Dyson, RTA Capital, Tytus Michalski, MetaLab, Dr. E. Bora Uygun, Fresco Capital, QueensBridge Venture Partners, Novatron Ltd., Michael Liou, Elad Gil, Naval Ravikant, Tikhon Bernstam, Don Dodge, Drew Houston, Matt Cutts, Steve Huffman, Greg Brockman, Lee Linden, Michael Seibel, Charlie Cheever, Alex Bangash, Ben Davenport, Andrej Henkler, Brad Flora, Paul Mckellar, Jared Brubaker, David Rusenko, Cory Levy, Eric Frenkiel, Othman Laraki, Robby Walker, Joshua Schachter, Mark Tabak, Ross Fubini, Pete Koomen, Justin Kan, Trip Adler, Mark Tseng, Sohail Prasad
Remittances
United States
Raven Tech
Seed
Big Data
United States
Bankjoy
Seed
Online Banking
United Arab Emirates
KickPay
Seed
Slow Ventures , Y Combinator , Soma Capital , Josh Buckley, FundersClub
B2B Payments
United States
Investment Platforms
Seed
Investment Platforms
United States
Kash
Seed
Green Visor Capital , Draper Associates , Structure Capital , Middle Bridge Partners, Y Combinator, Blue {Seed} Collective
E-Commerce
United States
Shift Payments
Seed
Scrum Ventures , Y Combinator , CRCM Venture Capital , Kapor Capital
Cryptocurrencies
United States
Slide Investments
Seed
Khosla Ventures , Data Collective , Y Combinator , TEEC Angel Fund, TriplePoint Ventures, Amit Avner, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Aslanoba Capital, Ash Fontana, Marc Bell Ventures
Investment Platforms
United States
Funds Raised
Vintage
Fund Name
Amount
Debt Financing
$15M
Venture
$8.25M
Venture
$2M
Key Employees
Jessica Livingston
Co-Founder & Partner
Paul Graham
Co-Founder & Partner
Robert Morris
Partner
Paul Buchheit
Managing Partner
Trevor Blackwell
Partner
Sam Altman
Managing Director, YC Research
