Your Y Combinator Application
Y Combinator to me 1 hour ago
Thank you for applying to Y Combinator; however, your startup was not selected to interview for the upcoming Y Combinator batch. We carefully reviewed thousands of applications and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot of promising groups. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the interview threshold ends up getting accepted to YC. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold.
Unfortunately we can't give you individual feedback about your application. This page explains why: http://ycombinator.com/whynot/
We sincerely hope and encourage you to reapply for the next batch. Applying multiple times in no way counts against you and a surprisingly large number of companies are funded after applying more than once.
We're trying to get better at this, but it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.
-- YC
Cris S to Y
3 minutes ago
Thanks for the consideration. It's a shame we are not working together at this time. Maybe in another format in the future. If you feel like investing again later, I encourage you to reach out.
I wouldn't worry too much about the ones you missed, there's so much talent you've already curated that their potential works and advice buffer whatever inefficiencies exist in the process, whether from gaps in your assessments or from founder applications, and at an increasing rate each year.
You're in the business of investing in the future. I'd say you're doing pretty well so far!