YC Top Companies List

Re:YC Top Companies List by syntaxing on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @12:03PM (#18240362)

I'm curious how much YC has made these couples years from this list. Does YC take a specific percentage when you join their incubator?

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Re:YC Top Companies List by andygcook on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @12:10PM (#18240461)

YC usually takes 7% for $150k in funding. You can read more about the Y Combinator Deal here https://www.ycombinator.com/deal

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Re:YC Top Companies List by capocannoniere on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @03:01PM (#18242519)

Interesting to note:

> In addition, we will continue to support the company in the priced equity round in which the safe converts, and subsequent financing rounds (priced equity rounds or bridge financing rounds) by participating in those rounds to approximately maintain our 7% ownership.

This has been the case since 2015 approximately [1]. This means YC's stake in many of these companies is in the order of 10s or even 100s of millions, since they keep their 7% through subsequent funding rounds. That's huge.

[1] https://blog.ycombinator.com/pro-rata/

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Re:YC Top Companies List by graybolt on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @12:30PM (#18240698)

It's tricky to figure out, because of course there's the standard 7% for 150k but they also do some later stage deals.

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Re:YC Top Companies List by snowmaker on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:16PM (#18243339)

True, but this list only includes companies that went through YC's core program.

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