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Here is an old blog post (not sure how accurate it is), but it has info on some other companies as well, http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2009/12/analyzing-y-combinator... Heres the summary according to the post, * YC S05 - 1 Active /3 Failed / 2 Acquired / 2 Other * YC W06 - 5 Active /1 Failed / 2 Acquired * YC S06 - 3 Active /6 Failed / 1 Unknown * YC W07 - 5 Active /4 Failed / 4 Acquired / 2 Unknown * YC S07 - 12 Act…
Also, the "date" column doesn't sort properly. It sorta alphanumerically instead of chronologically.
Here is an old blog post (not sure how accurate it is), but it has info on some other companies as well, http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2009/12/analyzing-y-combinator... Heres the summary according to the post, * YC S05 - 1 Active /3 Failed / 2 Acquired / 2 Other * YC W06 - 5 Active /1 Failed / 2 Acquired * YC S06 - 3 Active /6 Failed / 1 Unknown * YC W07 - 5 Active /4 Failed / 4 Acquired / 2 Unknown * YC S07 - 12 Act…
wow, Scribd has a higher Alexa rank than Reddit?
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There used to be a list of launched companies in the YC faq, but there started to be so many that it was always out of date. We have a list ourselves of course, but we couldn't publish that because it's full of stuff companies don't want disclosed. And it would be a lot of work to tease apart the stuff that's secret from the stuff that isn't. Often I'm not sure myself. So making a publicly viewable list of all the st…
I think this comment at 3:51 PM EST on 10/17/2010 may be the official death knell of structured data. A few years ago, YC would have maintained portfolio data in a spreadsheet or database. But in today's world, it's probably in a wiki. It might be surprising that an uberhacker like PG doesn't have a custom database of YC startups (which would, by definition, make it trivial to export the "non-secret" stuff). That's w…
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Why would it be useful?
It is interesting just to see what types of companies they fund.
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I think this comment at 3:51 PM EST on 10/17/2010 may be the official death knell of structured data. A few years ago, YC would have maintained portfolio data in a spreadsheet or database. But in today's world, it's probably in a wiki. It might be surprising that an uberhacker like PG doesn't have a custom database of YC startups (which would, by definition, make it trivial to export the "non-secret" stuff). That's w…
We do have a custom database. What makes it hard to export data is that we have no representation of what info is public. The database knows only that e.g. startup x has raised a series A round, or has been acquired, but it doesn't know whether those things have been announced yet.
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We do have a custom database. What makes it hard to export data is that we have no representation of what info is public. The database knows only that e.g. startup x has raised a series A round, or has been acquired, but it doesn't know whether those things have been announced yet.
Would you be willing to release lagged data? 12 months, for example?
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I think this comment at 3:51 PM EST on 10/17/2010 may be the official death knell of structured data. A few years ago, YC would have maintained portfolio data in a spreadsheet or database. But in today's world, it's probably in a wiki. It might be surprising that an uberhacker like PG doesn't have a custom database of YC startups (which would, by definition, make it trivial to export the "non-secret" stuff). That's w…
We do have a custom database. What makes it hard to export data is that we have no representation of what info is public. The database knows only that e.g. startup x has raised a series A round, or has been acquired, but it doesn't know whether those things have been announced yet.
Follow-on rounds, exits, and current status can all be provided by the community. But there seems to be no authoritative dataset that shows which startups participated in YC.
But from your comments, I'm guessing that some companies prefer that their mere involvement with YC not be disclosed at all, which makes this a harder task then just periodically exporting the name and URL of every portfolio company.
"Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated." - Structured Data