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Martin: Y Combinator startup cohort shifted from 16% to 82% remote post-COVID
“Pre-COVID, Y Combinator saw that 16% of their startups were started remotely. Today, this cohort, 82% are partially or fully remote.”
Latka: Y Combinator-backed Segment generates over $20M in monthly recurring revenue
“YC backed over twenty million in MRR. Twenty million monthly.”
Foster: Zapier has grown profitably on customer revenue since 2012 $1M seed
“We did do a small round when we were first getting started, so we went through Y Combinator and then raised I mean, what today is a modest seed round, about a million dollars in September, twenty-twelve. But since then, we've grown profitably and on customer r…”
Falk: Top dev tools like Stripe took 2+ years between Seed and Series A
“You also look at Stripe and a bunch like Vercel, some of these other really big developer tools companies straight after YC, they raised the seed round, but then it took them a long time to raise their series A, raising going from series A to series B. That wa…”
Robin: Luma Turned Down Y Combinator and Raised $3M
“They turned down Y Combinator, little quick story. They just raised three million dollars on their own.”
Nussenbaum: Y Combinator strongly encourages even co-founder equity splits
“Yeah, YC strongly encourages even or close to even.”
Dubey: Recent Y Combinator company valuations typically range from $8M to $15M
“YC companies, like, it's a range, but yeah, I mean, eight million to fifteen million is the common range for the recent YC companies.”
Sabayev: Careerist raised around $10 million total from YC and investors
“So totally, we raised around ten million from Y Combinator and a few other investors.”
Mozart Data left Y Combinator with Tempo, Rippling, and Gaia GPS
“So in, at the end of Y Combinator we made
Three sales and we left Y Combinator with three sales. So that was Tempo and Rippling were sort of the two largest and then Gaia GPS was another sale.”
Volset: Airbnb raised $600K for its Series A post-YC
“They actually just to give you a context for how things have changed, they did what they then called their Series A, which later got rebranded as a Series C because there wasn't such a thing, I think, as a Series C at the time. But they raised 600,000 dollars …”
Trip Adler: Scribd has raised approximately $50 million in total funding
“We raised fifty million at this point. So, so basically the trajectory was it was the first 12,000 from Y Combinator. Then we raised 40,000 in angel money. And then at that point we got some tractions. We really quickly went to raise three and a half million f…”
Minshew: The Muse raised roughly $270K in initial seed funding including YC
“We raised about a hundred K in January of plus we got into Y Combinator. So that came with about a 170,000 dollars. That was our first seed funding.”
Jones: Y Combinator invests $120K via priced common stock and a SAFE
“Now it's one 20, 20% or 20,000 dollars of it is invested in common share. So it's a priced round. And then the other a 100,000 dollars is invest, invested on a safe.”
HelloSign raised $3.5 million total across two venture rounds
“So after YC, we raised two million and then about two years later, we raised another million and a half. So we've raised three and a half million total.”