Accelerator · Based in San Francisco, USA
Y Combinator
The world's most influential startup accelerator.
Visit website ↗About Y Combinator
Y Combinator funds early-stage startups twice a year with a $500K standard deal in exchange for ~7% equity. Founded in 2005 by Paul Graham, YC has funded over 5,000 companies including Airbnb, Stripe, DoorDash, Coinbase, Instacart, and Reddit.
Investment profile
- Founded
- 2005
- Check size
- $500K standard deal
- Stages
- pre seed, seed
- Sectors
- AI, SaaS, Fintech, Dev Tools, Marketplace
- Geography
- Global
- Portfolio in index
- 152
- Top categories
- AI, Dev Tools, SaaS
- Most active at
- Seed, YC S24, YC W25
- Top cities
- Remote, San Francisco, Paris
How to reach Y Combinator
Partners
- Garry TanPresident & CEO@garrytan
- Michael SeibelGroup Partner@mwseibel
- Jared FriedmanGroup Partner@snowmaker
- Dalton CaldwellGroup Partner@daltonc
Notable historical investments
- Airbnb
- Stripe
- DoorDash
- Coinbase
152 portfolio companies in the index
- Dev Tools·Series A
- SaaS·Series C
- Open Source·Series C
- Other·Series B
- Open Source·Seed
- Open Source·Seed
- SaaS·Series A
- SaaS·Series A
- SaaS·Series C
- Open Source·Seed
- Other·Seed
- AI·Series C
- AI·Series B
- Dev Tools·Seed
- SaaS·Series B
- Open Source·Seed
- Open Source·Series A
- Marketplace·Series B
- Fintech·Series C
- AI·Seed
- AI·Seed
- AI·Series A
- AI·Seed
- AI
- SaaS·Seed
- SaaS·Seed
- SaaS·Seed
- AI
- SaaS·Series A
- Dev Tools·Seed
- AI·Seed
- Dev Tools·Seed
- Dev Tools·Seed
- Dev Tools·Seed
- Dev Tools·Seed
- Dev Tools·Seed
- Dev Tools·Seed
- Fintech·Series A
- Dev Tools·Seed
- SaaS·Seed
- Dev Tools·Seed
- AI·YC W25
- SaaS·YC W25
- SaaS·YC W25
- AI·YC W25
- AI·YC W25
- SaaS·YC W25
- SaaS·YC W25
- Marketplace·YC W25
- AI·YC W25
- AI·YC W25
- AI·YC W25
- Dev Tools·YC W25
- AI·YC W25
- SaaS·YC W25
- Dev Tools·YC W25
- Dev Tools·YC W25
- Dev Tools·YC W25
- AI·YC W25
- Fintech·YC W25
- Dev Tools·YC W25
- SaaS·YC W25
- AI·YC W25
- Fintech·YC W25
- AI·YC W25
- AI·YC W25
- AI·YC W25
- Fintech·YC S24
- Fintech·YC S24
- AI·YC S24
- AI·YC S24
- SaaS·YC S24
- Marketplace·YC S24
- Fintech·YC S24
- AI·YC S24
- SaaS·YC S24
- Dev Tools·YC S24
- Dev Tools·YC S24
- Fintech·YC S24
- AI·YC S24
- AI·YC S24
- AI·YC S24
- Fintech·YC S24
- AI·YC S24
- SaaS·YC S24
- Fintech·YC S24
- AI·YC S24
- Fintech·YC S24
- Fintech·YC S24
- AI·YC S24
- Marketplace·YC S24
- AI·YC S24
- AI·YC S24
- AI·YC S24
- SaaS·YC S24
- AI·YC S24
- SaaS·YC S24
- SaaS·YC S24
- AI·YC S24
- AI·YC W24
- AI·YC W24
- Dev Tools·YC W24
- AI·YC W24
- SaaS·YC W24
- Dev Tools·Seed
- Dev Tools·Seed
- AI·Seed
- AI·Seed
- SaaS·Seed
- Dev Tools·Seed
- AI·Seed
- AI·Series A
- AI·Seed
- AI·Seed
- AI·Series C
- AI·Seed
- AI·Seed
- Dev Tools·Series A
- Dev Tools·Series A
- Dev Tools·Series A
- Dev Tools·Seed
- Fintech·Series A
- Dev Tools·Series A
- SaaS·Series A
- AI·Series A
- AI·Seed
- Dev Tools·Seed
- Dev Tools·Series A
- Dev Tools·Seed
- SaaS·Series B
- SaaS·Series A
- Fintech·Series B
- Fintech·Series A
- Fintech·Series A
- AI·Seed
- SaaS·Seed
- Fintech·Seed
- Open Source·Series A
- Open Source·Seed
- Open Source·Seed
- Open Source·Seed
- Open Source·Seed
- Open Source·Seed
- Open Source·Series A
- Open Source·Series A
- Open Source·Seed
- Open Source·Seed
- Open Source·Seed
- Open Source·Seed
- Open Source·Seed
- Open Source·Seed
- Open Source·Seed