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{{Institution
|Image=YCombinator.jpg
|Caption=YCombinator Logo
|Name=YCombinator
|Type=Incubator
|City=Mountain View
|URL=https://www.ycombinator.com/
|Cohort Size=849
|Percent Funded= 24.03%
|Percent Acquired= 7.77%
|Percent IPO= 0.82%
|Number of Directors=8
|Experienced Directors=8
|Date Founded=2005
}}
Part of the [[Start-Up Guide (Issue Brief)]] Series
==About==
<onlyinclude>YCombinator is a Silicon Valley-based, for-profit incubator institution founded in 2005. It advertises a wide array of services, including access to mentors, funding, office space, and start-up services. YCombinator has eight directors, seven of whom have direct entrepreneurship experience as established entrepreneurs and an eight who has indirect experience in the sector. Of the 849 startups which have enrolled in the YCombinator program, 204 have received venture capital funding. 66 companies which participated in the YCombinator program have been acquired and seven have exited in an IPO.
</onlyinclude>
==Contact Information==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|Website
|https://www.ycombinator.com/
|-
|Contact Page
|https://www.ycombinator.com/contact/
|}
==Portfolio==
{| class="wikitable"
! style="text-align:left;"| Name
! VC?
! Acquired?
! IPO?
|}
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
! colspan=“1”| YC VC Backed
|-! coname || datefirstinv || datelastinv || founddate || totinv || city || nation
|-
| 1000Memories Inc. || 2/16/11 || 11/5/10 || 1/1/10 || 9/8/13 || San Francisco || United States
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
! colspan=“1”| YC IPO
|-! issuer || industry || principalamntmil || issuedate || filingdate || state || nation || principalamtsumofallmktsmil || proceedsamtthismktmil || proceedsamtsumallmktsmil || marketplace || cusip || tickersymbol || primaryexchangewhereissuerstocktrades || ipoflag || pcchangestockprice1dayafteroffer || datefound || streetaddress1 || streetaddress2
|-
| Flex Corp || Other Finance || 1/0/00 || 3/26/87 || || Minnesota || United States || 0.912 || 0.9 || 0.912 || U.S. Public || 33935A || || || Yes || || || 9725 Cimarron Circle ||
| AMBITION Co Ltd || Real Estate || 1/5/00 || 9/8/14 || 8/15/14 || Foreign || Japan || 5.396 || 5.4 || 5.396 || Japan Public || 1C2865 || 3300 || Mothers || Yes || 54.791 || || 12-10 Sakuragaoka-Cho ||
|}
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
! colspan=“1”| YC Acquired
|-
! target || acquirorname || enterprisevalatannouncementmil || enterprisevaleffectivedatemil || equityvalatannouncementmil || dateannounced || dateeffective || acquirorind || targetind || status || acquirorcity || targcity
|-
| COIN Inc || The Reynolds & Reynolds Co || 49.237 4 || 1/9/00 || 1/29/00 || 6/17/93 || 6/29/93 || Prepackaged Software || Computer and Office Equipment || Completed || Kettering || Atlanta
|-
| Grid || OneMain.com Inc || np n || p || || 5/6/99 || 5/6/99 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || Southampton ||
|-
| Webflow Inc || SBI & Co || np n || p || || 5/21/02 || 5/21/02 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || Salt Lake City || Carefree
|-
| Mentat Inc || Packeteer Inc || 16.500 1 || 1/6/00 || 1/16/00 || 12/22/04 || 12/22/04 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || Cupertino || Los Angeles
|-
| Grove || American Land Lease Inc || np n || p || || 5/26/06 || 5/26/06 || Investment & Commodity FirmsDealersExchanges || Real Estate; Mortgage Bankers and Brokers || Completed || Clearwater || Foley
|-
| Zenter || Google Inc || np n || p || || 6/19/07 || 6/19/07 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Mountain View ||
|-
| Parakey Inc || Facebook Inc || np n || p || || 7/19/07 || 7/19/07 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Menlo Park || Mountain View
|-
| InnerSpace Corp || The Stanley Works || np n || p || || 8/1/07 || 8/1/07 || Metal and Metal Products || Wood Products Furniture and Fixtures || Completed || New Britain || Grand Rapids
|-
| Anywhere.FM Inc || imeem Inc || np n || p || || 1/28/08 || 1/28/08 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || San Francisco || San Francisco
|-
| Omnisio Inc || Google Inc || np n || p || || 7/30/08 || 7/30/08 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || Mountain View || Atherton
|-
| Clickpass Inc || SynthaSite Inc || np n || p || || 12/18/08 || 12/18/08 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || San Francisco || San Francisco
|-
| GraffitiGEO Inc || Loopt Inc || np n || p || || 10/20/09 || 10/20/09 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || Mountain View ||
|-
| AppJet Inc || Google Inc || np n || p || || 12/4/09 || 12/4/09 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Mountain View || San Francisco
|-
| reMail || Google Inc || np n || p || || 2/17/10 || 2/17/10 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Mountain View || San Francisco
|-
| Divvyshot Inc || Facebook Inc || np n || p || || 4/3/10 || 4/3/10 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || Menlo Park || San Francisco
|-
| 280 North Inc || Motorola Solutions Inc || np n || p || || 8/24/10 || 8/24/10 || Communications Equipment || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Schaumburg ||
|-
| Heroku Inc || Salesforce.com Inc || 212.000 2 || 1/12/00 || 212 || 12/8/10 || 1/4/11 || Prepackaged Software || Business Services || Completed || San Francisco || San Francisco
|-
| Cloudkick Inc || Rackspace Hosting Inc || np n || p || || 12/16/10 || 12/16/10 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || San Antonio || San Francisco
|-
| FlightCaster Inc || Next Jump Inc || np n || p || || 1/3/11 || 1/10/11 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || New York || San Francisco
|-
| TalkBin || Google Inc || np n || p || || 4/1/11 || 4/1/11 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || Mountain View || Mountain View
|-
| BackType Inc || Twitter Inc || np n || p || || 7/5/11 || 7/5/11 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || San Francisco || Mountain View
|-
| Fridge || Google Inc || np n || p || || 7/21/11 || 7/21/11 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || Mountain View || New York
|-
| Roost || Vertical Response Inc || np n || p || || 12/15/11 || 12/15/11 || Prepackaged Software || Business Services || Completed || San Francisco || San Francisco
|-
| Rapportive Inc || LinkedIn Corp || np n || p || || 2/7/12 || 2/23/12 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || Mountain View || San Francisco
|-
| GazeHawk Inc || Facebook Inc || np n || p || || 3/9/12 || 3/9/12 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || Menlo Park || Mountain View
|-
| Loopt Inc || Green Dot Corp || np n || p || || 3/9/12 || 4/4/12 || Credit Institutions || Business Services || Completed || Pasadena || Mountain View
|-
| Posterous Inc || Twitter Inc || np n || p || || 3/12/12 || 3/12/12 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || San Francisco || San Francisco
|-
| OMGPOP Inc || Zynga Inc || np n || p || || 3/21/12 || 3/21/12 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || San Francisco || New York
|-
| Stypi || Salesforce.com Inc || np n || p || || 5/1/12 || 5/1/12 || Prepackaged Software || Business Services || Completed || San Francisco ||
|-
| Socialcam Inc || Autodesk Inc || np n || p || || 7/17/12 || 8/1/12 || Prepackaged Software || Prepackaged Software || Completed || San Rafael || San Francisco
|-
| DailyBooth Inc || Airbnb Inc || np n || p || || 7/24/12 || 7/24/12 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || San Francisco || Palo Alto
|-
| Zencoder Inc || Brightcove Inc || 30.000 3 || 1/0/00 || 30 || 7/26/12 || 8/14/12 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Boston || San Francisco
|-
| Mailgun Inc || Rackspace Hosting Inc || np n || p || || 8/28/12 || 8/28/12 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || San Antonio || San Francisco
|-
| 1000memories Inc || Ancestry.com Inc || np n || p || || 10/3/12 || 10/3/12 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Provo || San Francisco
|-
| Meetings.io || Jive Software Inc || np n || p || || 11/5/12 || 11/5/12 || Prepackaged Software || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Palo Alto || San Franciso
|-
| Snapjoy Inc || Dropbox Inc || np n || p || || 12/19/12 || 12/19/12 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || San Francisco || Boulder
|-
| Glassmap || Groupon Inc || np n || p || || 1/11/13 || 1/11/13 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Chicago ||
|-
| Simperium Inc || Automattic Inc || np n || p || || 1/24/13 || 1/24/13 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || San Francisco ||
|-
| PageLever Inc || Unified Social Inc || np n || p || || 1/29/13 || 1/29/13 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || New York || San Francisco
|-
| Parse Inc || Facebook Inc || np n || p || || 4/25/13 || 5/23/13 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Menlo Park || San Fransico
|-
| Crocodoc || Box Inc || np n || p || || 5/9/13 || 5/9/13 || Prepackaged Software || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Los Altos || San Francisco
|-
| Xobni Corp || Yahoo! Inc || np n || p || || 6/17/13 || 7/4/13 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Sunnyvale || San Francisco
|-
| Embark Inc || Apple Inc || np n || p || || 8/22/13 || 8/22/13 || Computer and Office Equipment || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Cupertino || San Francisco
|-
| Flutter Inc || Google Inc || np n || p || || 10/2/13 || 10/2/13 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Mountain View || San Francisco
|-
| Easel Inc || GitHub Inc || np n || p || || 1/9/14 || 1/9/14 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || San Francisco || San Francisco
|-
| Exec Inc || Handybook Inc || np n || p || || 1/15/14 || 1/15/14 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || Boston || San Francisco
|-
| Spire LLC || DataLogix Holdings Inc || np n || p || || 2/11/14 || 2/11/14 || Prepackaged Software || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Westminster ||
|-
| Cloudant Inc || IBM Corp || np n || p || || 2/24/14 || 3/4/14 || Computer and Office Equipment || Business Services || Completed || Armonk || Boston
|-
| Hackpad Inc || Dropbox Inc || np n || p || || 4/17/14 || 4/17/14 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || San Francisco ||
|-
| Perfect Audience || Marin Software Inc || 22.800 2 || 1/2/00 || 22.8 || 6/2/14 || 6/2/14 || Prepackaged Software || Prepackaged Software || Completed || San Francisco || San Francisco
|-
| Freshplum Inc || TellApart Inc || np n || p || || 7/15/14 || 7/15/14 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Burlingame || Los Angeles
|-
| FathomDB Inc || Meteor Development Group Inc || np n || p || || 10/7/14 || 10/7/14 || Prepackaged Software || Business Services || Completed || San Francisco || WILMINGTON
|-
| Firebase Inc || Google Inc || np n || p || || 10/21/14 || 10/21/14 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Mountain View || San Francisco
|-
| Leftronic Inc || AppDirect LLC || np n || p || || 11/10/14 || 11/10/14 || Prepackaged Software || Business Services || Completed || San Francisco || San Francisco
|-
| 500friends Inc || Merkle Inc || np n || p || || 11/18/14 || 11/18/14 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || Columbia || San Francisco
|-
| Wit.ai Inc || Facebook Inc || np n || p || || 1/5/15 || 1/5/15 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Menlo Park || Palo Alto
|-
| Screenhero Inc || Slack Technologies Inc || np n || p || || 1/28/15 || 1/28/15 || Prepackaged Software || Prepackaged Software || Completed || San Francisco || San Francisco
|-
| Launchpad Toys Inc || Google Inc || np n || p || || 2/5/15 || 2/5/15 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Mountain View || San Francisco
|-
| Authy || Twilio Inc || np n || p || || 2/24/15 || 2/24/15 || Prepackaged Software || Prepackaged Software || Completed || San Francisco || San Francisco
|-
| Scribd Inc || Octave Tech Investment S1 Ltd || np n || p || || 3/17/15 || 3/17/15 || Investment & Commodity FirmsDealersExchanges || Business Services || Completed || || San Francisco
|-
| ReadyForZero Inc || Avant Credit Corp || np n || p || || 3/31/15 || 3/31/15 || Credit Institutions || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Chicago || Los Angeles
|-
| DataRank Inc || Simply Measured Inc || np n || p || || 10/13/15 || 10/13/15 || Business Services || Business Services || Completed || Seattle || Fayetteville
|-
| Yardsale Inc || ProductGram Inc || np n || p || || 10/21/15 || 10/21/15 || Prepackaged Software || Prepackaged Software || Completed || San Francisco || San Francisco
|-
| Teleborder Inc || TriNet Group Inc || np n || p || || 4/7/16 || 4/7/16 || Business Services || Prepackaged Software || Completed || San Leandro || San Francisco
|-
| Statwing Inc || Qualtrics LLC || np n || p || || 5/26/16 || 5/26/16 || Prepackaged Software || Prepackaged Software || Completed || Provo || San Francisco
|-
| Embed.ly Inc || A Medium Corp || np n || p || || 8/2/16 || 8/2/16 || Business Services || Advertising Services || Completed || San Francisco || Boston
|}
==Directors==
{| class="wikitable"
! style="text-align:left;"| Name
! Bio
! Class
|-
|Sam Altman
|President, YCombinator, Co-Founder, Loopt
|D1
|-
|Brian Chesky
|Board Member, YCombinator, Co-Founder, AirBnB
|D1
|-
|Adora Cheung
|Board Member, YCombinator, Co-Founder, Homejoy
|D1
|-
|Patrick Collison
|Board Member, YCombinator, Co-Founder, Stripe
|D1
|-
|Drew Houston
|Board Member, YCombinator, Founder, DropBox
|D1
|-
|Emmett Shear
|Board Member, YCombinator, Founder, TwitchTV
|D1
|-
|David Rusenko
|Board Member, YCombinator, Founder, Weebly
|D1
|-
|Jessica Livingston,
|Board Member, YCombinator, VP of Marketing, Adams Harkness
|D2
|}
==Services Provided==
{| class="wikitable"
|Funding
|-
|Mentoring
|-
|Office Space
|-
|Start-up Services
|}
[[Category:Ecosystem]]
