YCombinator

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Ecosystem Institution
YCombinator
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YCombinator Logo
Institution Information
Cohort Information
Director Information
City Mountain View
URL https://www.ycombinator.com/
Date Founded 2005
Cohort Size 849
Percent Funded 24.03%
Percent Acquired 7.77%
Percent IPO 0.82%"%" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 0.82.
Number of Directors 8
Experienced Directors 8
© McNair Center, 2016

Part of the Start-Up Guide (Issue Brief) Series

About

YCombinator is a Silicon Valley-based, for-profit incubator institution founded in 2005. It advertises a wide array of services, including access to mentors, funding, office space, and start-up services. YCombinator has eight directors, seven of whom have direct entrepreneurship experience as established entrepreneurs and an eight who has indirect experience in the sector. Of the 849 startups which have enrolled in the YCombinator program, 204 have received venture capital funding. 66 companies which participated in the YCombinator program have been acquired and seven have exited in an IPO.


Contact Information

Website https://www.ycombinator.com/
Contact Page https://www.ycombinator.com/contact/

Portfolio

Name VC? Acquired? IPO?

Directors

Name Bio Class
Sam Altman President, YCombinator, Co-Founder, Loopt D1
Brian Chesky Board Member, YCombinator, Co-Founder, AirBnB D1
Adora Cheung Board Member, YCombinator, Co-Founder, Homejoy D1
Patrick Collison Board Member, YCombinator, Co-Founder, Stripe D1
Drew Houston Board Member, YCombinator, Founder, DropBox D1
Emmett Shear Board Member, YCombinator, Founder, TwitchTV D1
David Rusenko Board Member, YCombinator, Founder, Weebly D1
Jessica Livingston, Board Member, YCombinator, VP of Marketing, Adams Harkness D2

Services Provided

Funding
Mentoring
Office Space
Start-up Services