Startups, Role Models, Risk, and Y Combinator

Re:Startups, Role Models, Risk, and Y Combinator by jalonso510 on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @05:36PM (#7469149)

"We fund companies at all stages, from just the faintest idea to post-Series B"

Does this mean that (i) YC will continue to invest in it companies up through their later rounds, or (ii) that YC will actually participate in a Series B for a company that it had no prior connection with?

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Re:Startups, Role Models, Risk, and Y Combinator by ycaspirant on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @06:17PM (#7469598)

I think what he meant to say is that YC accepts applications from companies at all stages. Once accepted to YC, all companies are given the exact same funding deal.

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Re:Startups, Role Models, Risk, and Y Combinator by sokoloff on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @08:11PM (#7470404)

If that's the case, I think that limits YC to reasonably early stage (pre-series A) or near-death companies. It's perfectly rational to give 6% to YC of a very early company. It's almost surely plus-EV to do that.

A successful company about to close a series-B? Much, much harder to imagine how YC would be plus-EV at that point.

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