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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 ||
{| 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
| 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]]
