Y Combinator (YC Core)

Investment Strategy

Geography

• North America

Sector Focus

• Marketplace Lending
• Funding Platforms
• WealthTech
• Payments and Remittances
• Data and Analytics
• Cryptocurrencies
• Real Estate

Investment Stage

• Seed

Summary

Y Combinator provides seed funding for startups. Seed funding is the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays your expenses while you’re getting started.
Some companies may need no more than seed funding. Others will go through several rounds. There is no right answer; how much funding you need depends on the kind of company you start.

At Y Combinator, our goal is to get you through the first phase. This usually means: get you to the point where you’ve built something impressive enough to raise money on a larger scale. Then we can introduce you to later stage investors—or occasionally even acquirers.

Y Combinator is now accelerating over 80 companies per cycle. There are two cycles per year. In addition, Y Combinator offers a new service called YC Fellowship. Companies that are apart of YC Fellowship will benefit from acceleration on a smaller scale. YC Fellowship provides resources and connections to involved companies, but is less of a commitment than the core program.

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