Y Combinator
also referred to as: yc
includes Y Combinator Startup School, Y Combinator Continuity Fund
60 statements across 45 episodes · 16 bullish · 6 bearish · 41 people on the record · first statement Mar 31, 2016 by Ashu Dubey · said 460 times in 138 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Nathan Latka (180), Brandon Foo (18), Nunzio Martinello (16), Einar Volset (14), Samir Smajic (10), David Rusenko (10), Fred Stevens-Smith (9), Amit RG (9)
2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 33 mentions in 11 episodes 3 per episode
- Paragon Grew from $1m to $3m ARR Last 12 Months to Help you Connect To your customers apps faster
- How he hit $2m ARR in 24 months for Ecommerce Support SaaaS, Raised at $20m valuation
- How SafetyWing Doubled ARR to $24m and Closed Series B at $195m Post Money Valuation
- How He hit $12k monthly revenue building the Zapier for Data
- How we built a successful sales team and scaled to +$10m ARR
- Rare! A YC company that profits $300k/mo, $25m revenue
- How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats
- How I Helped Rippling Hire Their First 5 CSM's after $45m Series A, and lessons from Gorgias, other SaaS Brands on building CSM teams
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 35 mentions in 10 episodes 4 per episode
- DevOps Tool Fig Raised $2.2m in 2020, Now Approaching 100k MAU's, Whats Next?
- How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup
- Mozart Helps You Clean Your Data, $0 to $750k ARR in 12 Months, $6m Seed
- LATAM SaaS + IoT Grows 10x to $1.2m in ARR, $3.7m Round at $15m Valuation
- 300% YoY Growth, $1.5m Revenue Now Helping Dev Teams Manage Output
- SMB Tax App hits $20k MRR by getting 1k+ Signups and Converting 20-50% to $35/mo paid accounts
- Venture Studio Spinout Hits $250m Valuation for Clean Data Room SaaS
- 18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 52 mentions in 15 episodes 3 per episode
- Productivity App Hits $2500 MRR, Raising $1.5m on $10m Valuation
- Document Signing API Mindee Hits $1.5m in ARR, Closes $14m Series A
- 100% YoY Growth to $1.5m ARR Today Helping Brands Unlock Consumer Data With Rewards
- SoloSuit Makes $80k/mo Helping Consumers Fight Bank Debt Collectors
- How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People
- They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.
- He Exited for $600m, Started with 40%, Now Building YC and AngelList for Latin America
- The Secret Dataset CPG Gods Use
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 70 mentions in 15 episodes 5 per episode
- Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works
- 1693 He Gives Founders a CC, No Personal Gauruntee, Will Pass $1B GMV in 30 Day Period by 2020.
- 1751 SendBird Messaging SDK Sitting on $100m Cash, $20m in ARR
- 1641 How He Helps Medical Devices Get To Market Faster, 0-$1m in ARR in 12 Months
- 1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships
- LeadGenius Hits $10m in Revenue, Growth Slow at 50% YoY Considering $25m Raised
- Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?
- How to Acquire a $180k Revenue SaaS Company for $3k With Ryan Kulp
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 23 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- 1320 $14m in ARR on $2.9m Raised Inventing New Visual Way to Code Service 3000 Freelancers
- 1601 If All Content Becomes 3d With AR, VR, This CEO Will Be At The Center Of It
- 1351 Why OwnLocal CEO Turned Down $17m Offer to Keep Helping Newspapers Digitize
- 1303 Ebay to Amazon Dropshipping Arbitrage CEO Makes $5.4M
- 1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations
- 1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1
- 1615 Secrets to Cold Traffic to Demo to Sales Funnel with $1.8m ARR SalesProcess CEO
- 1519 Health Records Company Hits $23m ARR Serving 6000 Health Customers
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 91 mentions in 18 episodes 5 per episode
- 1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo
- 916 SaaS: Y Combinator QA Company Passes $12m+ in ARR After Graham Shits on Name
- 918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
- 1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue
- 1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning
- 1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk
- 946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him
- 1008 WePay CEO on $1b+ in Transaction Volume Helping Your Favorite Online Platforms Process Payments
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 73 mentions in 27 episodes 3 per episode
- 886 SaaS: 27 Year Old Breaks $240m in Annual Revenue, Piping of the Internet
- EP 597: Nova.ai Passes 100 Customers, $2.2M Raised To Help SDR's Sell More Using AI with CEO Will Dinkel
- 890 SaaS: Self Serve Infographics Tool Hits $250k MRR
- EP 569: GrowSumo Helping 70 B2B SaaS Companies Grow Affiliate Programs, $100k New MRR So Far with CEO Bryn Jones
- 823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?
- 762: 4000 Developers Pay Them To Catch Bugs, $9.5m Raised
- 705: With $8.8M Raised, Is This The Ultimate Machine Learning Tool?
- EP 584: FlightFox YC Founder: We Talk About When To Quit All The Time, $700k Revenue, Making Travel Way Easier with CEO Lauren Sullivan
- 19 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 74 mentions in 26 episodes 3 per episode
- EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo
- EP 345: Replacing Property Managers With $79 Flat Fee, $31k in MRR with Max Nussenbaum of EnterCastle.com
- EP 519: GetAccept Hits $44k MRR, Helping 1100 Companies Get Deals Signed with CEO Samir Samjic
- EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M
- EP 318: She Threw Away Old Company, Now Doing $3.3 Million/year, $18,000,000 Raised With MatterMark.com
- EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp
- No Way This Fitness App Worth $8m With No Revenue with Ashu Dubey of GetApplause EP 212
- EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap
- 18 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →