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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 ...
Y Combinator interviews and selects two batches of companies per year. The companies receive a total of $500,000 in seed money as well as advice and connections. The $500,000 in funding is made up of $125,000 on a post-money SAFE in return for 7% equity and $375,000 on an uncapped SAFE with a "most favored nation" ("MFN") provision (i.e.: "we get the same best terms you give anyone else in the ...
Garry Tan (Chinese: 陳嘉興; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Ka-heng; born 1981) is an American venture capitalist and executive who is the CEO of Y Combinator [1] and a founder of Initialized Capital. [2] He previously co-founded Posterous and Posthaven. [3] He was an early employee at Palantir Technologies, and previously a partner at Y Combinator. [4]
Y Combinator started doing so in Summer 2022, though its demo days have still been remote. (YC says its next Demo Day will be partially in-person at Pier 70, though presentations will still be online)
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]
Daniel Gross is an Israeli-American businessperson who co-founded Cue, led artificial intelligence efforts at Apple, served as a partner at Y Combinator, [1] and is a notable technology investor in companies such as Uber, Instacart, Figma, GitHub, Airtable, Rippling, CoreWeave, Character.ai, Perplexity AI, and others.
After leaving, Cheung and her brother joined Y Combinator. Together they brainstormed several startup ideas, including Pathjoy, a platform to connect customers with life coaches and therapists, but soon abandoned the idea. Instead Cheung started to focus Pathjoy on finding house cleaners instead of therapists.
Blomfield co-founded the UK-based company GoCardless in January 2011 with Hiroki Takeuchi and Matt Robinson. [7] The company rose to prominence after receiving a £125,000 investment from Y Combinator. Blomfield stayed in Silicon Valley and during his three years at the company, it raised around £35 million of investment and hired 100 people. [6]