This might allow some interesting patterns to help filter future companies and let them know where the money is best allocated. Optimizing return on investment seems like it would be the most important part of YCombinator, then again I'm not a venture capitalist (but would love to be one some day).
I'm sure this is done somewhat at every incubator / startup investment group but it might be determined to be too valuable to release publicly, but at least a list of companies would be appreciated (all companies, not just the wildly successful ones).
Some possible stats off of the top of my head (per company):
- industry, location, target market
- founder's specialties (marketing, financial, developers). in-house developer or outside contractors. age of founders, university attended
- expected revenue after 1 year, 2 years, 5 years. actual revenue after those times
- number of users, number of paying customers, average revenue per customer. time from conception to first sale
Some of this might be information that they don't want to share, but if willing it would be wonderful to see. Just every data point possible that might offer some kind of correlation between extreme success / moderate success / failure.
Looks fairly up to date, but I'm not sure how accurate it is.
I recall seeing a spreadsheet that included other similar programs but I can't find it right now.
I'm imagining a more consolidated view with filtering / sorting, I might work on building that in the next week or two if I have some free time and see if it's useful to anyone.
I'd love to know how many out of the 716 companies funded so far are still in business per se as independent entities? And among those that are not anymore, what was the exit (successful exit vs. soft landing / acquihire vs. death). I suspect it's really hard to track though, and somewhat subjective.