Accelerator
United States
Last Deal Oct 2026

Y Combinator

Check Size
€500K – €500K
Outreach
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Investment Focus

Investment Stages

Geographic Focus

Investment Thesis

World's most prolific startup accelerator. $500K standard deal for 7% equity. 4 batches of 250+ startups annually. Notable European alumni include Monzo and GoCardless.

How to Pitch Y Combinator

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Who To Contact

Aaron Epstein
General Partner
Andrew Miklas
General Partner
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Recent Deals

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Last 90d

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YC Portfolio Overlap

Y Combinator backed 6 Y Combinator companies, 6 flagged YC top companies.

Airbnb
Airbnb

Book accommodations around the world.

Winter 2009
Consumer
Coinbase
Coinbase

Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies.

Summer 2012
Fintech
DoorDash
DoorDash

Restaurant delivery.

Summer 2013
Consumer
Dropbox
Dropbox

Backup and share files in the cloud.

Summer 2007
B2B
Scale AI
Scale AI

Data-centric infrastructure to accelerate the development of AI

Summer 2016
B2B
Stripe
Stripe

Economic infrastructure for the internet.

Summer 2009
Fintech

Portfolio Highlights

Airbnb
OpenAI
Stripe
Coinbase
DoorDash
Scale AI
Dropbox

Team

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Aaron Epstein
General Partner

Co-founder of Creative Market (YC W10), sold to Autodesk and spun out again.

Checked Sept 2026
Andrew Miklas
General Partner

Co-founder and founding CTO of PagerDuty (YC S10, NYSE:PD).

Checked Sept 2026
Ankit Gupta
General Partner

Co-founder of Reverie Labs, machine learning for drug discovery, acquired by Ginkgo Bioworks.

Checked Sept 2026
Brad Flora
General Partner

Co-founder and CEO of Perfect Audience, ad network acquired by Marin Software.

Checked Sept 2026
Chris Golda
General Partner

Co-founder and CEO of BackType (YC S08), acquired by Twitter in 2011.

Checked Sept 2026
David Lieb
General Partner

Co-founder and CEO of Bump (S09), mobile app acquired by Google in 2013.

Checked Sept 2026
Diana Hu
Managing Partner

Co-founder and CTO of Escher Reality (YC S17), acquired by Niantic.

Checked Sept 2026
Garry Tan
President & CEO

President and CEO of Y Combinator, co-founder of Initialized Capital and Posterous.

Checked Sept 2026
Grey Baker
General Partner

Co-founder of Pincites and Dependabot, early employee at GoCardless (YC S11).

Checked Sept 2026
Gustaf Alströmer
General Partner

Former Product Lead at Airbnb Growth team, CEO and co-founder of Heysan (YC W07).

Checked Sept 2026
Harj Taggar
Managing Partner

Founder and CEO of Triplebyte (YC S15) and Auctomatic (YC W07).

Checked Sept 2026
Harshita Arora
General Partner

Co-founder of AtoB (YC S20), financial infrastructure company for trucking industry.

Checked Sept 2026
Jared Friedman
Managing Partner

Co-founder of Scribd (YC 2006), one of top 100 sites on the web.

Checked Sept 2026
Jon Xu
General Partner

Co-founder and former CTO of FutureAdvisor (YC S10), acquired by BlackRock.

Checked Sept 2026
Nicolas Dessaigne
General Partner

Co-founder and CEO of Algolia (YC W14), search API used by millions of developers.

Checked Sept 2026
Pete Koomen
General Partner

Co-founder of Optimizely (W10), experimentation platform acquired in 2020.

Checked Sept 2026
Tom Blomfield
General Partner

Co-founder of Monzo and GoCardless (YC S11), awarded OBE in 2019.

Checked Sept 2026
Tyler Bosmeny
General Partner

Co-founder and CEO of Clever (S12), acquired for $500M in 2021.

Checked Sept 2026

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