Kat Mañalac
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@ycombinator
I'd appreciate it if you did -- because we can do something about it.
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The women of Y Combinator. ❤️ Thanks to everyone for an incredible day.
#ffc2017
. 👩🏾💻👩🏼🔬👩🏻💼
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About 30% of YC applications come in on the day of the deadline. I love all you procrastinators out there.
There’s still over 3 hours left to apply to S23 (good luck to our software team!).
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It’s Day 1 of YC S21 Demo Day!!! Good luck to the teams presenting this week. ❤️
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It’s YC W23 Demo Day — YC’s 36th Demo Day (and my 19th!), and one of the most exciting days of the year.
It’s always incredible to see how far founders can come in just 3 months.
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In case he’s looking for a co-founder:
What’s up? Just hanging out with the baby in his Y Combinator onesie. Thanks
@ycombinator
and
@KatManalac
!
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Happy Demo Day and congrats to the YC S23 batch!!! We’re live from the SF office.
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Seeing myself on video is *terrifying* -- but I get these two questions a lot from people who are thinking about starting a startup: How do I find a cofounder? and How should we split equity?
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In 2018, we're doing 3 Female Founders Conference events -- the first in Seattle:
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It's YC Alumni Demo Day -- one of my favorite days of the year. Good luck to all the YC S20 companies presenting today. Here's a shot of the Demo Day control room this morning.
#ycdemoday
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I love libraries.
We’re excited to announce the launch of the YC Startup Library: .
Over the past 15 years, we’ve created videos, podcasts and essays as resources for startup founders -- and we've built a central location where you can access and search all these resources.
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Congrats to YC's first Philippine fintech company. 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭 May you give rise to many more Philippine startups.
Manila-based payments processing startup PayMongo (YC S19) raises $2.7 million in seed funding. Congrats to the
@paymongo
team!
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Nearly everything YC's learned about Series As -- if you're gearing up to raise an A, this is a must-read. Thanks to
@janellehmtam
and
@harris
for putting this guide together.
In the last two years, YC companies have raised 190 Series A's and over $2B in capital. We collected information on every round and distilled everything we learned into a Series A Guide. Today, we're making it public:
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Look at this guy testifying in front of the Senate!
@ericmigi
speaks in support of interoperability:
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Many founders have the wrong mental model for “launching” their startup. It’s not a one-shot deal! I hope this helps you launch sooner (and more often).
YC's
@KatManalac
wants to change the way you think about launching.
In her talk, she shares the multitude of ways to launch and get attention for your product, with tangible strategies and examples from companies like Airbnb.
▶️
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Know anyone working on a something that will let us make clean water extremely abundant and cheap? Call me:
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1/ We're hosting a virtual Future Founders Conference for women globally -- this Nov 18. Excited to see
@jesslivingston
,
@jesskah
,
@bballerika
,
@Tracy_Young
,
@anuhariharan
,
@nolimits
,
@PameVls
,
@cadran_c
,
@christinacaci
& more speak.
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Excited for the Future Founders Conference today! The fact that 3,000 women signed up (and that 60% of you are technical) makes me optimistic for the future:
#ycffc
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Winter 2015 of YC was excellent. An awesome photo of the batch taken by
@PrettyInstant
http://t.co/rAxXCU51DP
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So proud of these guys! They started by standing in front of the post office to find first customers, and now they're here. Congrats
@diveygulati
and
@saxenad
. Also -- this is YC's first Chicago-based unicorn:
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I love reading YC applications. You get a window into the minds of some of the smartest, most optimistic people in the world.
The deadline for YC S22 applications is tonight! I'm excited to read yours.
Tonight at 8pm PT is the deadline to apply for YC S22! We're looking forward to reading your applications.
Apply at: .
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Thanks to
@aarthir
,
@talia_frenkel75
,
@katgleason
+
@lizwessel
for their fundraising advice.
#ycfemalefounders
👏🏽
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So proud of all the companies presenting today. 👊🏽
YC W19 Demo Day kicks off this afternoon. Good luck and congrats to the founders presenting on Day 1!
#ycdemoday
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I put together a YC holiday gift guide (and no, ChatGPT did not write it!):
‘Twas the night before YC’s big holiday fete, and I hadn’t bought anyone’s Yuletide gift yet.
I jumped on old Bookface to find YC alums, who sold gifts I could give to my working day chums.
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Nearly 40,000 of all depositors at Silicon Valley Bank were small businesses. If swift action isn’t taken, over 100,000 people could soon lose their jobs.
If you're a current founder or CEO, consider signing this petition:
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So proud of this team. And in celebration of this Demo Day’s wrap, I subscribed to Wren to offset my carbon footprint: 🌎
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I taught this Startup School class at Stanford on what I learned after talking to 20+ YC companies about D&I at startups.
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YC's newest unicorn (
@Ginkgoo
) has a female founder! Here's
@reshmapshetty
speaking at the 2016 Female Founders Conference:
Congrats to the
@Ginkgoo
team! Ginkgo Bioworks (YC S14) secures $275 million in Series D, valuing the company at over $1 billion
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I’m delighted that
@garrytan
is returning to YC.
He’s an uncommon combination of kind and fierce – an advocate and advisor any founder would be lucky to work with. I’m excited to see where YC goes with Garry at the helm.
Today we're excited to announce that Garry Tan will be YC's next president and CEO.
Welcome home,
@garrytan
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AMA!
Welcome our Office Hours host,
@KatManalac
, a partner at
@YCombinator
! Since 2013, Kat has seen about 1,300 companies go through the program and helps lead outreach efforts to prospective YC founders. Ask her about building your startups or applying to YC!
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Last time YC visited the Boston area,
@snowmaker
and
@sdianahu
dropped by MIT to do a talk. YC ended up funding 10% of the students who were in that room.
We're coming back to Boston!
Join us for
@startupschool
East and early interviews for S24. Hope to see you there.
YC is coming to Boston!
Join us for Startup School East on April 20, and a day of YC interviews on April 21.
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Excited to see everyone tomorrow at
#ffc2017
+ if you can't make it IRL we're livestreaming here: 👩🏾💻
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Exciting news: We now invest $500k into every company in the YC batch! Watching the faces/comments of the W22 founders when we announced this was delightful. What a good way to kick off W22:
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This was hard to watch. But you should watch it anyway.: Black Parents Explain How to Deal with the Police
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Do we have a word or phrase for content that wasn't written by ChatGPT? Organic? Prompt-free content?
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Happy YC W24 Demo Day!!!
Today, we're kicking off our 38th Demo Day — featuring founders from over 240 startups, building across a variety of verticals, including B2B/enterprise, fintech, healthcare, consumer, climate, and more.
Meet the YC Winter 2024 batch:
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From the first batch of YC to IPO day!
Thanks for building something that’s such a delightful part of our lives. Congrats
@Reddit
,
@redditspez
&
@alexisohanian
.
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Proud to see so many YC companies on this list: These 50 Start-Ups May Be the Next ‘Unicorns’
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.
@ilikevests
' UI/UX talk is one of the best, most informative talks for startups I've seen. See it 10/12 at Stanford
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Excited for👇
Our 4th Female Founders Conference will be on June 29 in SF. Sign up here
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I’m interviewing YC co-founder
@jesslivingston
on Instagram Live () on Wednesday, July 1 at 8:30am PT.
Any questions you want me to ask her? Send them my way here:
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We're doing a new series, Employee 1, focused on sharing the often untold stories of 1st employees at companies:
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Excited to share this list of YC's top companies. 48 of the top 100 have gone through YC since my first batch. And it's cool to see so many international founders in the top 100. 🏆 to
@sharonhpope
for the work she did to get this list out.
We’re excited to share a list of Y Combinator’s top companies. The top 100 YC companies are listed by valuation (including the top 12 exits), as of October 2018:
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I'm ready for San Fransokyo + more Gene Roddenberry Democrats.
Thanks so much for having me Ed!
We are going to build SF into San Fransokyo, or the home of Starfleet Academy
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Many happy returns of the Demo Day. Good luck YC Winter 2022!
Today, we're kicking off our 34th Demo Day — featuring founders from 42 countries and over 400 startups building in every sector, from fintech, B2B SaaS, Web3, consumer, healthcare, education, climate, energy, and more.
Meet the YC Winter 2022 batch:
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Excited to see everyone at the
#femalefounders
conference! We’re streaming at 2pm PT at
http://t.co/LXHjZ3QDle
+ I’m tweeting
@ycombinator
.
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Happy International Women’s Day!
Proud to work with some wildly talented women + thanks to
@SurbhiSarnaSF
,
@sdianahu
& Elizabeth for bringing the 👩🏻💻👩🏿💻👩🏼💻👩🏽💻👩🏾💻 of the W24 batch together.
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The first US Air Force launch site ever awarded to a startup. 🚀
Air Force grants 3D rocket printer Relativity Space (YC W16) a ‘premier’ launch pad in Florida:
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Thanks 👩🏽💻👩🏻🏭👩🏾🏫👩🏼🔬
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Congrats
@cadran_c
-- so proud of what you've done so far and excited to see you build Elpha into something huge: Y Combinator’s Women-Only Forum Is Becoming Its Own Business
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The first batch of YCF kicks off today!
@foundersatwork
talking to the fellows:
http://t.co/1zqNtdA8LS
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It’s incredible how optimistic YC partners are about startups, even after experiencing the intense challenge of building them.
Thanks for telling your story so honestly
@t_blom
+ thanks for capturing it
@zachboth
/
@ryanjloughlin
. YC founders are lucky to have you in their corner.
Before I was 30 years old, I’d started 2 companies that are each now worth over a billion dollars. And it almost broke me.
Here’s my story.
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So proud of
@shollsman
,
@0x
& the
@paystack
team. Paystack was the 1st Nigerian company to go through YC. (Also love the
@OoTheNigerian
shout out in this video.)
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Excited that Startup School is launching as a continuous program -- which means you can jump in whenever you're ready to get started. Congrats to
@ericmigi
,
@corbtt
,
@TheRioDeGennaro
,
@catherynli
and
@zainali
on launching.
Today,
@startupschool
, YC’s free online program and global community for founders, is relaunching as a continuous program!
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YC’s Surbhi Sarna is kicking off the 1st YC Health and Bio Summit. Come say hello if you’re here.
#ycbio
(and if you see Surbhi, tell her to get on Twitter already)
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I was almost late to the train today and tried my first
@jumpbikes
(and made it to CalTrain on time!). That feels like the future. I haven't been this delighted by something in a while.
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The
@bottomless
coffee subscription is one of the best things I started using this year. It helped me discover my new favorite coffee (Kostal). They're like coffee treasure hunters: .
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Italy - the best!
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Representation matters. I get this feeling every time I see an awesome woman in film or Asian actors in leading roles.
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"Y Combinator would cease to operate if Kirsty wasn’t around.” 💯
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Come work with us! YC is looking for great people to join our software,
@startupschool
and outreach teams:
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+1 Excited to see
@gralston
at the helm.
Y Combinator promotes Geoff Ralston to president
Geoff is incredible. Smart, wise, pragmatic, kind, and extremely thoughtful. I learned a lot working with him at YC, and this move is awesome.
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this is great:
I wish I'd done umbilical-cord banking. Happy to see
@anjahealth
making that process easier and cheaper.
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Looking forward to seeing all your launches on Show Startup School!
Change the way you think about launching with
@KatManalac
. What an awesome session!
How to launch (again and again), Week 4 of
@startupschool
by
@ycombinator
is on 🔥.`
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"there's proof that companies are still working on solving some of life's fundamental problems"
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Just tried and the demo is awesome. It lets you edit podcasts directly from the transcripts. Congrats
@CraigCannon
and
@ramonrecuero
.
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I'm delighted that a founder I respect and admire so much is joining YC as our first healthcare and bio focused group partner. Welcome Surbhi!
We're excited to welcome Surbhi Sarna as our first group partner focused on Healthcare and Biotech!
Formerly the CEO & Founder of nVision Medical, Surbhi is joining YC to support our bio startups and build out YC’s bio and life sciences playbook.
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This. I'm consistently inspired by how hard she works for her founders.
I got to work with Surbhi closely this YC batch and she is literally one of the best investor/startup whisperers I've ever seen in action
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Congrats to YC S18 and excited to see alum in the house.
It's YC S18 Alumni Demo Day! Good luck to all the startups presenting today:
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I have mad respect for the
@Replit
story. Thanks for sharing it
@amasad
&
@HayaOdeh
-- you're forgiven for Rick Rolling us :P.
I loved this quote on how they knew they they'd be good co-founders: "We loved dreaming together."
"Do we care enough about this, this mission, to commit the next 5 years to this?" - Replit founders
#startupschool
@ycombinator
@startupschool
@KatManalac
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“'I decided I wanted to raise money, I scheduled 11 meetings over a single week,' co-founder and CEO Mathilde Collin told me. 'At the end of the week, I had term sheets from all investors but one'...They managed to raise so quickly because they didn’t need to raise." 💪Congrats!
Front (YC S14) raises $66 million to replace Microsoft Outlook. Congrats to
@collinmathilde
,
@l_perrin
and the team!
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It's YC S17 Demo Day today, and here are some stats on the latest Y Combinator batch.
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Ginkgo Bioworks (
@Ginkgo
) was the first bio company funded by YC in 2014, and they're being traded on the NYSE today.
In addition to building Ginkgo, they've done a lot to build the synbio startup community. Excited to see where Ginkgo goes from here:
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It's W23 Demo Day!
@mwseibel
shared some of these stats from the W23 batch. There are lots of misconceptions about who (and when you) should apply to YC -- I hope this dispels a few.
It’s never too early to apply to YC. 52% of the latest batch were accepted with only an idea, and 77% had zero revenue.
Application deadline for the next batch is Friday, so apply now:
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@bendhalpern
@ycombinator
Hey! We're looking into it and taking it down. It's a Google Adsense ad.
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YC Demo Day 2 — behind the scenes👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@Lindsayterra
@eliz_akman
@zainali
@caseymrm
@tamannakhemani
& Adele
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It's YC W17 interviews! One of my favorite times of the year. Good luck to the teams interviewing today.
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Now for some happy news...welcome back,
@harjtaggar
! And welcome
@aaron_epstein
!
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Happy Alumni Demo Day + good luck to the S17s presenting today.
This is my 10 year anniversary of going to
@ycombinator
Alumni demo days.
I am extremely lucky to be involved in this incredible community!
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Congrats to the alum on the list! Here's a sector breakdown...
○ B2B – 51%
○ Fintech – 16%
○ Consumer – 11%
○ Edtech – 4%
○ Media – 3%
○ Bio – 3%
○ Automotive – 3%
○ Real Estate – 2%
○ Healthcare – 2%
○ Construction – 2%
○ Aerospace – 2%
○ Energy/Environment – 1%
(1/4) We’re excited to share this year’s Top YC Companies. Here are the 101 YC alum, listed by valuation: .
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YC W22 Day 2 BTS! Good luck W22s.
Best of luck to all the founders presenting on day 2 of YC W22 Demo Day!
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It’s a 2 YC IPO day — epic! Congrats to the
@embarktrucks
&
@getweave
teams! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Big day for
@ycombinator
companies
@embarktrucks
(W16) $EMBK and
@getweave
(W14) $WEAV who both rang the bell this morning on the Nasdaq and NYSE respectively.
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Happy YC W18 Demo Day and good luck to the batch!
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Congrats to the YC Top Companies!
Sign of the times: 76% of the companies consider themselves remote or remote friendly (59% have an HQ in the Bay Area).
+ Fun fact: YC W16 has the largest percentage of companies from their batch on the list.
Today we’re excited to release an update to the YC Top Companies list.
There are now 15 public YC companies, 316 private YC companies that are valued at over $150M, and over 80 are valued at over $1B:
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