Does anyone know which South Africa startup was in this batch?
I'm curious about the brazilian one.
The Brazilian company is bxblue. https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/18/bxblue/
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#12It would be great if it shows * How many companies with only a single founder? * How many companies are founded by people who are not native english speaker? I mean, an entire non english speaker team, e.g., all of them were born in Russia or China and came to US in a "late" age (e.g., after 22), instead of Canada, UK etc. It would be more interesting if we can see a YC-funded company that is founded by a single foun…
There are 18 companies with a solo founder in this batch.
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#13Would have been interesting to have an overrepresented section as well (if exists).
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#14What is the overall rate of return for all the companies?
I would like to see how much money was invested total into the companies and how much they all valued in total today.
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#15It would be great if it shows * How many companies with only a single founder? * How many companies are founded by people who are not native english speaker? I mean, an entire non english speaker team, e.g., all of them were born in Russia or China and came to US in a "late" age (e.g., after 22), instead of Canada, UK etc. It would be more interesting if we can see a YC-funded company that is founded by a single foun…
There are 18 companies with a solo founder in this batch.
Thanks! Good to know. This ratio is larger than I expected. It would be inspiring for other solo founders who want to apply YC to know this number :)
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#17Interesting stats. I don't get this section though: UNDERREPRESENTED FOUNDERS S17 Female founders: 35 (12% of all S17 founders) S17 Applicants who were female: 14% S17 Companies with a female founder: 27 (21% of the batch) S17 Applications with a female founder: 22% S17 Black founders: 14 (4.76% of S17 founders) S17 Companies with a Black/Af-Am founder: 8 (6.25% of the batch) S17 Hispanic/Latinx founders: 13 (4.42% o…
* We ask for gender on our applications, but we haven't asked for race/ethnicity, which is why we don't have the answer to your first question. * We see that it does for female founders. * Total number of submissions * Gender is reported in the applications. We asked founders in the batch to self-report for race/ethnicity.
Why ask for gender but not race/ethnicity?
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#18It would be great if it shows * How many companies with only a single founder? * How many companies are founded by people who are not native english speaker? I mean, an entire non english speaker team, e.g., all of them were born in Russia or China and came to US in a "late" age (e.g., after 22), instead of Canada, UK etc. It would be more interesting if we can see a YC-funded company that is founded by a single foun…
There are 18 companies with a solo founder in this batch.
Would also appreciate insights into current average revenue, ideally by company category. Thanks.
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#19It would be great if the underrepresentation stats also included class distinctions, or at least economic backgrounds.
Another thing I've been curious about is how many of the founders had student loans when they started the company. I'd bet that student loans hold a lot of people back. I just paid mine off last year.
Student loans and health factors (specifically complications around health insurance or existing healthcare costs). Health considerations can be a massive issue when trying to do a start-up.
At 30-40 years old (with the average age around 30, I imagine there are plenty of candidates between 30-40), some small percentage of people are likely to be running into their first health problems or concerns.
Financially speaking, the only thing more ridiculous than the cost of education, is the cost of healthcare. If you need health insurance to cover a prescription that costs a thousand dollars per month, you're naturally going to have serious concerns about leaving the job that provides that insurance.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
* We ask for gender on our applications, but we haven't asked for race/ethnicity, which is why we don't have the answer to your first question. * We see that it does for female founders. * Total number of submissions * Gender is reported in the applications. We asked founders in the batch to self-report for race/ethnicity.
Why ask for gender but not race/ethnicity?
Because there are more females than Hispanics/Blacks (that complain, at least).