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The following notable startups have completed the Y Combinator Accelerator program. Mike Isaac described Y Combinator as: "Y Combinator accepts batches of start-ups twice a year in a semester-like system and gives them money, advice and access to a vast network of start-up founders and technologists who can advise them." [1]
Y Combinator, LLC (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm launched in March 2005 [1] which has been used to launch more than 4,000 companies. [2] The accelerator program started in Boston and Mountain View , expanded to San Francisco in 2019, and was entirely online during the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 3 ]
Jessica Livingston Livingston at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2014 Born 1971 (age 53–54) Nationality American Alma mater Bucknell University (BA) Occupation(s) Businesswoman, Writer, Venture Capitalist Organization Y Combinator Known for Co-founding Y Combinator, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days Notable work Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days Spouse Paul Graham ...
In 2012, he entered the Y Combinator startup accelerator and received a $150,000 investment, which he used to fund Coinbase. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] His post on Hacker News [ 8 ] looking for a co-founder to get into the Y Combinator program later became a viral post in Hacker News.
In 2008, Michael Seibel was a key mentor to the co-founders of Airbnb and recommended them to Y Combinator. [10] [11] In 2013 he became a part-time partner at Y Combinator and joined Y Combinator as its first African-American partner in October 2014. [12] [13] He became CEO of the Y Combinator Startup Accelerator in 2016. [14]
Paul Graham (/ ɡ r æ m /; born November 13, 1964) [3] is an English-American computer scientist, writer and essayist, entrepreneur and investor.His work includes the programming language Arc, the startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo!
Techstars was founded in Boulder, Colorado, by David Cohen, Brad Feld, David Brown, and Jared Polis in 2006. Initially, Techstars invested between $6,000 and $18,000 in early stage companies, providing entrepreneurs with mentorship during a three month accelerator program.
Altman was born on April 22, 1985, in Chicago, Illinois, [7] [8] into a Jewish family, [9] and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri.His mother is a dermatologist, while his father was a real estate broker.