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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 ...
Michael Seibel (born October 7, 1982) is a partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv/Twitch and Socialcam. [1] [2] He first joined Y Combinator in 2013, advising hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting diversity efforts among startup founders. [3] [4]
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!
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]
[96] [99] He dated Loopt co-founder Nick Sivo for nine years. They broke up shortly after the company was acquired in 2012. [97] Altman married engineer Oliver Mulherin in January 2024, [100] at their estate in Hawaii; [101] the pair also live in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood and often spend weekends in Napa, California.
The company later merged with Auctomatic, which was funded by Y Combinator, [3] and Collison moved to Silicon Valley. [4] Auctomatic was a software company that built tools for the eBay platform. [5] The company was also funded by Chris Sacca. [6] Auctomatic was acquired for $5 million in March 2008, when Collison was 17. [7] [8] [9] [10]
He is a partner at Y Combinator in San Francisco, where he invests in and helps startups. [1] Previously, Jared was the co-founder and CTO at Scribd , a digital library and document-sharing platform, which has 80 million users.