Y Combinator Continuity Fund, every mention

Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired May 12, 2022 · 18 mentions

• ▶ 47:15 David Rosenthal So tonight, we have Anu Hariharan, the managing partner of YC's Continuity Fund, which leads all of these late-stage investments, here to tell the story with us.
• ▶ 47:27 David Rosenthal She went from a junior engineer at Qualcomm, great semiconductor company, to partner at Andreessen Horowitz, to now running YC Continuity, where she serves on the boards of Brex, local fan-favorite Convoy, FAIR,
• ▶ 50:10 Ben Gilbert We wanted to ask you, what is YC continuity?
• ▶ 50:13 Ben Gilbert But in a very mechanical way, like, like literally what is YC continuity?
• ▶ 50:47 Anu Hariharan And so that's really how we came up with continuity.
• ▶ 51:27 Anu Hariharan So we run three programs in continuity.
• ▶ 53:12 Anu Hariharan So even though continuity was launched seven years ago, by the way.
• ▶ 54:13 David Rosenthal Before continuity started, was YC, were there any, like, experiments in doing investing after the seed stage before continuity, or was continuity the beginning of?
• ▶ 54:23 Anu Hariharan Continuity was the beginning.
• ▶ 55:25 Anu Hariharan But that was the culture in YC before continuity.
• ▶ 55:53 David Rosenthal July, twenty-fifteen, when continuity was started, the idea of raising a fund, a growth fund, like, most people would have thought that was crazy, right?
• ▶ 58:38 Ben Gilbert Does continuity change that relationship, knowing that you are available capital now?
• ▶ 1:00:04 Ben Gilbert Like, is our YC partners one big pool that sort of comprise one investment committee across accepting into the accelerator, making growth investments, or is it more like a couple people, our YC continuity, and then a handful of people are…
• ▶ 1:00:28 Anu Hariharan And on continuity, it's Ali and I, Ali Rogani, who was the former CEO of Twitter and CFO of Pixar, so we both run the continuity fund.
• ▶ 1:01:15 Anu Hariharan On continuity, it's a three people investing team, investment committee, so it's just me, Ali, and one early stage vote in case Ali
• ▶ 1:01:24 Anu Hariharan But it's primarily the continuity decision.
• ▶ 1:01:27 Ben Gilbert And one other question just to help sort of frame up the continuity operations.
• ▶ 1:01:36 Ben Gilbert The continuity fund I think only does a handful of deals a quarter.