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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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”