YC Stats

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Post by macleanjr » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 4:53 PM UTC

YC Stats
blog.ycombinator.com

Re: YC Stats

#2

Post by bsbechtel » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 5:01 PM UTC

I would be very interested in seeing a cohort analysis of YC company valuations by batch :-)

Re: YC Stats

#3

Post by dzlobin » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 5:01 PM UTC

Nice to see more detailed stats on this stuff. One figure I'd really like to see is the number of companies worth more than $10M & $50M.

Re: YC Stats

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Post by jypepin » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 5:03 PM UTC

how good or bad are those numbers? only 8/970 companies are worth > 1b and 40 are worth over 100M.

I assume YC is doing great for themselves, so I'm wondering, what is the rule of thumb to say an investment was successful? (for YC, knowing they invest cheap and early.)

Is it once a company reaches 10M? 1M? Where there is an exit?

It would be interesting to know how many companies YC says the investment was a success (either made money or will if no exit yet).

Re: YC Stats

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Post by julien_c » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 5:03 PM UTC

  Number of companies we offered to fund yesterday for the first YC Fellowship: 32

That's a figure I was looking for (took the interview yesterday, didn't get in).

Re: YC Stats

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Post by andreasklinger » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 5:04 PM UTC

> Number of companies in the last batch: 107

Wow.

Just wow.

Re: YC Stats

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Post by minimaxir » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 5:05 PM UTC

Interesting way to bury the lede that 32 companies received a Fellowship offer. The estimate was 20. (http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/20/y-combinator-just-introduce...)

Re: YC Stats

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Post by sama » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 5:10 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #7

Interesting way to bury the lede that 32 companies received a Fellowship offer. The estimate was 20. ( http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/20/y-combinator-just-introduce... )

Honestly if we were prepared to take 320 that would have been good. The quality was outstanding.

Re: YC Stats

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Post by brayton » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 5:13 PM UTC

What does it mean by saying "got their start with us"? I believe many companies have been around for awhile before YC. Many already with revenue, traction and funds raised (although this might be the exception to the rule?).

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Post by lordnacho » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 5:13 PM UTC

Since applications are opening tomorrow, it would be interesting to have a breakdown of interviews/acceptances based on various criteria: sole founder, has revenue, has user, etc...

It would allow prospective applicants to think about whether to apply, and hopefully keep the pile a manageable size for the people reading it.