Y combinator
| Y Combinator, LLC
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| legal form | Limited Liability Company |
| founding | 2005 |
| Seat | Mountain View , California , United States |
| management |
Paul Graham Robert Tappan Morris Trevor Blackwell Jessica Livingston |
| Branch | Venture capital |
| Website | www.ycombinator.com |
Y Combinator is an American incubator founded in March 2005 and based in Mountain View , California. Y Combinator ranks among the top US incubators year after year.
history
The company was founded in 2005 by Paul Graham , Robert Tappan Morris , Trevor Blackwell and Jessica Livingston . Y Combinator provides startups in the founding phase with money, advice and contacts for a period of three years and requires 6% company shares. By 2013, Y Combinator had helped found 500 companies in over 30 different market segments, including Brex Inc., Coinbase , Scribd , reddit , Airbnb , Justin.tv , 280 North , Heroku , OMGPOP , Loopt , Cloudkick , Zecter , Wufoo , Dropbox and Disqus . The total value of funded by Y Combinator company to 7.8 billion US dollars estimated, which corresponds to an average of 45.2 million dollars per company. Y Combinator also runs the website and Community Hacker News .
When choosing a name, the company used an expression of the same name from the lambda calculus , which is also known as a fixed point combiner .
Web links
- www.ycombinator.com Company website
- The Future of Venture Capital and High-Tech Entrepreneurship - Talk given at Stanford University by Paul Buchheit from Ycombinator. ( video archive )