Y Combinator

“So let's go through YC interviewed for YC in 2018 rejected interviewed for tiny seed 2019 rejected applied interviewed For Indie.VC, Ernest Capital, Techstars, Chicago, and Boulder rejected. But in 2019 as well, you applied and interviewed for launch, and you …”

“Last I heard now, pre-product launch on demo day, it's like 12 to twenty million pre.”

“In my opinion, it was Paul Graham that changed it. It was Y Combinator, because before that, the docs were opaque. There was an information asymmetry where investors had all the info about terms, and we didn't as founders, and Paul Graham really changed that.”

“And if you look around at accelerators, for example, you know, they will fund like Tiny Seed, Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 startups, you know, they'll fund A company doing a few thousand dollars a month at, you know, a 900,000 to two million dollar valuation, …”

“If you want to raise buckets of money, I guess this is no better place than YC. Easy to raise.”

“Because we have folks who get into both and who have gone with TinySeed.”

“I have literally talked to Tela. Tela is this Loom-like video recorder, but they have raised two million before. And in the article it is mentioned that, okay, they were like with a Y Combinator and the first batch of customers were just like their peers. From…”

“Initially we did apply to YC, because for us it was like, oh, that's like, if we ever want to raise money, that's the school to go to, because I don't know, like, I'm from Quebec City, I know nobody that raised money and whatnot, and those, like, didn't work o…”