List of YC Companies

#1

Post by lmx » Sun, Oct 17, 2010, 4:06 PM UTC

Re: List of YC Companies

#2

Post by pg » Sun, Oct 17, 2010, 4:46 PM UTC

This doesn't seem very accurate, judging from the first couple entries. Textpayme was a morph of Firecrawl, and Club Beta I've never heard of.

Re: List of YC Companies

#3

Post by charlesju » Sun, Oct 17, 2010, 5:10 PM UTC

The largest exit in the history of YC is only $20 M?

Re: List of YC Companies

#4

Post by bkrausz » Sun, Oct 17, 2010, 5:15 PM UTC

charlesju wrote: post #3

The largest exit in the history of YC is only $20 M?

Keep in mind the oldest YC companies have only been around ~5 years. There are some YC companies worth more than that but haven't exited. The common examples (based on others' estimations) are Dropbox and AirBnB.

Re: List of YC Companies

#5

Post by lotharbot » Sun, Oct 17, 2010, 5:17 PM UTC

Suggestions:

- link the word "exited" to a press release about the exit, or something similar.

- If the exit was in the form of being absorbed into a larger company, something like "Exited - [company name]" would be nice (for example, Divvyshot should say Exited - Facebook).

Re: List of YC Companies

#6

Post by bkrausz » Sun, Oct 17, 2010, 5:19 PM UTC

pg wrote: post #2

This doesn't seem very accurate, judging from the first couple entries. Textpayme was a morph of Firecrawl, and Club Beta I've never heard of.

Jed (the source spreadsheet maintainer) does a really good job of keeping the newer companies up to date with public info, but it's hard to find a lot of public info on YC companies before the fact that they were YC was newsworthy.

Re: List of YC Companies

#7

Post by pg » Sun, Oct 17, 2010, 5:20 PM UTC

bkrausz wrote: post #4

charlesju wrote: post #3

The largest exit in the history of YC is only $20 M?

Keep in mind the oldest YC companies have only been around ~5 years. There are some YC companies worth more than that but haven't exited. The common examples (based on others' estimations) are Dropbox and AirBnB.

Most of the companies mentioned on http://ycombinator.com are.

Re: List of YC Companies

#8

Post by mlLK » Sun, Oct 17, 2010, 5:21 PM UTC

pg wrote: post #2

This doesn't seem very accurate, judging from the first couple entries. Textpayme was a morph of Firecrawl, and Club Beta I've never heard of.

http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/09/21/copying-y-combina...

Looks like he wrote a thesis on "seed accelerators" using YC as a model.

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#9

Post by tszming » Sun, Oct 17, 2010, 5:23 PM UTC

Sorting not working, e.g. Click on the column "Est Aq Price"

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#10

Post by benzheren » Sun, Oct 17, 2010, 5:24 PM UTC

Thanks for sharing the info!