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Twice yearly, Y Combinator invests $500,000 in a large cohort of startups, working closely with them for three months to refine pitches and optimize company fundamentals before a Demo Day presentation to select investors.
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Paul Graham
Founder
Paul Graham is an author of influential books like "On Lisp" (1993), "ANSI Common Lisp" (1995), and "Hackers & Painters" (2004). He co-founded Viaweb in 1995, the first SaaS company, which later became Yahoo Store. In 2002, he discovered a simple spam-filtering algorithm that inspired the next generation of filters. Paul holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard.
Investor scope
Investment criteria breakdown.
Investment stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Target regions
USA
Investment ranges
$100K - $500K
Focus areas
Generalist
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