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Looking at the top 100 funded companies: it's interesting that the majority are in the "Consumer", "Dev Tools" or "Healthcare" categories, and hardly any are in the "AI and ML" category.
How long as it been since a big, recognizable brand hit?
Looking at the top 100 funded companies: it's interesting that the majority are in the "Consumer", "Dev Tools" or "Healthcare" categories, and hardly any are in the "AI and ML" category.
Well, TIL that the ACLU was in YC W17 thanks to the "top 100 tweet count" page. I was kind of surprised by that, are there other well-established organizations that have joined YC at a (very) late stage or are they unique?
"Search experience powered by Algolia (W14). Icons powered by Font Awesome (S15). Hosted on Heroku (W08).
The original (v1.0) YCDB was rated #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt, Sept 27, 2017. The original YCDB was made with Webflow (S13)."
I suppose you can no make an entire website/product only using YC company tech. ha.
"Most photogenic"... Really?? EDIT: And here come the downvotes, so let me clarify my stance. I haven't a clue what Snappr does, or what their definition of 'photogenic' is. But here is the dictionary definition of 'photogenic': (adjective) (especially of a person) looking attractive in photographs or on film. So my impression was that this metric was to do with how attractive perhaps the founders were. The overall i…
They're missing the YC13 company I work at (Lob).
Looking at the top 100 funded companies: it's interesting that the majority are in the "Consumer", "Dev Tools" or "Healthcare" categories, and hardly any are in the "AI and ML" category.
AI is an approach, not a market, so I suggest those who make bank from AI will be companies like consumer, healthcare etc..
YC's portfolio is staggering. Whatever they use to pick who to fund, they're doing it right.
They're missing the YC13 company I work at (Lob).
Matt from Snappr here. This is the source we used for the base list of companies: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ For some reason Lob doesn't appear.