Overview

Y Combinator is a San Francisco-based startup accelerator and early-stage investor founded in 2005. YC accepts applications from startups anywhere in the world and runs in-person batches in San Francisco. Its standard deal invests $500,000 in each accepted company: $125,000 for 7% equity and $375,000 through an uncapped MFN SAFE. YC is sector-agnostic and has funded companies across B2B software, fintech, consumer products, industrials, healthcare, education, and real estate and construction. It typically works with companies at the earliest stages, including teams that may not yet have revenue, a product, or a fully developed idea.

Investment focus

Sectors
B2B, Fintech, Consumer, Industrials, Healthcare, Education, Real Estate & Construction
Stages
Pre-Seed, Seed
Regions
Global

How they work with companies

YC supports founders through dedicated General Partners, weekly meetings during the batch, group and one-on-one office hours, and its Bookface founder community. Companies receive access to partner credits and deals, founder and alumni introductions, and fundraising support culminating in Demo Day and introductions to investors. Office hours and YC's alumni network remain available after the batch. YC also operates Work at a Startup, where candidates can discover jobs and connect with YC companies.Read more

YC supports founders through dedicated General Partners, weekly meetings during the batch, group and one-on-one office hours, and its Bookface founder community. Companies receive access to partner credits and deals, founder and alumni introductions, and fundraising support culminating in Demo Day and introductions to investors. Office hours and YC's alumni network remain available after the batch. YC also operates Work at a Startup, where candidates can discover jobs and connect with YC companies.

Key people

6 people
Garry TanPresident & CEO, General PartnerView bio

Garry Tan is President and CEO of Y Combinator and a General Partner. He previously served as a YC partner from 2011 to 2015 and built parts of the founder experience including Bookface and the Demo Day website. He co-founded Initialized Capital and Posterous, a YC S08 company acquired by Twitter, and earlier worked at Palantir.

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Harj TaggarManaging PartnerView bio

Harj Taggar is a Managing Partner at Y Combinator. He was previously founder and CEO of Triplebyte and co-founder of Auctomatic, both YC companies. He first joined YC as a partner in 2010, left in 2014 to build Triplebyte, and returned in 2020. He studied Jurisprudence at Oxford.

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Diana HuManaging PartnerView bio

Diana Hu is a Managing Partner at Y Combinator. She co-founded and served as CTO of Escher Reality, a YC S17 augmented-reality infrastructure company acquired by Niantic. She later led Niantic's AR platform and previously led data science at OnCue TV. Her technical background includes computer vision and machine learning.

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Jared FriedmanManaging Director, Software and General PartnerView bio

Jared Friedman is Managing Director, Software and a General Partner at Y Combinator. He co-founded Scribd, which joined YC in 2006 and became a major digital publishing platform. Before Scribd, he worked at an early artificial-intelligence company and studied computer science at Harvard.

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Gustaf AlströmerGeneral PartnerView bio

Gustaf Alströmer is a General Partner at Y Combinator. Before joining YC, he spent four and a half years at Airbnb as a Product Lead on its Growth team. He previously led growth at Voxer and was CEO and co-founder of Heysan, a mobile messaging company from YC's Winter 2007 batch.

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Aaron EpsteinGeneral PartnerView bio

Aaron Epstein is a General Partner at Y Combinator. He co-founded Creative Market, a YC W10 marketplace for digital design assets. Creative Market was acquired by Autodesk in 2014 and later spun out as an independent company. Epstein has worked extensively with YC founders on product, marketplaces, design, growth, and company building.

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Companies curated by Ovii

A selection of companies associated with Y Combinator that Ovii curates for job seekers.

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