Y Combinator

An Interactive Database

This Silks collects information on almost 700 startups funded by Y Combinator (YC), including those featured in the last Summer 2014 Demo Day. We have aggregated information on the companies from Seed-db, CrunchBase, AngelList and yclist. We used Kimono Labs for data collection as well as APIs. We added inferred data on the gender of the founders of the startups. You can browse the data in this Silk by clicking on any link or clicking on the "Explore" tab anywhere in the site.

(Disclosure Note: this Silk is NOT AFFILIATED WITH Y Combinator IN ANY WAY.)

Use this Silk to:

Search for facts on a specific YC session, startup company, or founder
Create maps, charts, groups and grids to visualize YC data with only a few clicks. (Click the "Explore" tab anywhere on the site to do this).
Filter visualizations (with inline filters, or using the Filter menu on the right side of Explore mode) to create detailed views. (You can also share these views either as the structured URL or embed as an iFrame).
Ask and answer questions about YC quickly and efficiently.

Top 20 most frequent investors in YC Startups

Investors	Count
Y Combinator	688
SV Angel	93
Andreessen Horowitz	49
Alexis Ohanian	47
Paul Buchheit	45
Start Fund	39
Sequoia Capital	33
Funders Club	30
500 Startups	24
Yuri Milner	22
Garry Tan	19
Google Ventures	19
Felicis Ventures	17
Sam Altman	17
Founder Collective	16
Joshua Schachter	16
CrunchFund	15
Ignition Partners	15
ACE & Company	14
Ashton Kutcher	14
Chris Sacca	14
First Round Capital	14
Raymond Tonsing	14
Charles River Ventures	13
General Catalyst Partners	13
New Enterprise Associates	13
Avalon Ventures	12
betaworks	12
Greylock Partners	12
Khosla Ventures	12
Redpoint Ventures	12
Ron Conway	12
Union Square Ventures	12
XG Ventures	12
Data Collective	11
Max Levchin	11
Naval Ravikant	11
SoftTech VC	10
Webb Investment Network	10
Baseline Ventures	9
Digital Garage	9
Harjeet Taggar	9
Quotidian Ventures	9
Bessemer Venture Partners	8
Elad Gil	8
Keith Rabois	8
Lerer Ventures	8
Accel Partners	7
Intel Capital	7
InterWest Partners	7
Lowercase Capital	7
Mark Friedgan	7
Menlo Ventures	7
Plug & Play Ventures	7
Thrive Capital	7
Chris Dixon	6
Dave McClure	6
Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)	6
Fenox Venture Capital	6
Gabor Cselle	6
Geoff Ralston	6
Highland Capital Partners	6
Index Ventures	6
Mitch Kapor	6
reinmkr inc.	6
Salesforce	6
Tencent	6
Trinity Ventures	6
Aaron Levie	5
Atomico	5
August Capital	5
Aydin Senkut	5
Crosslink Capital	5
DCM	5
Esther Dyson	5
Justin Yoshimura	5
Learn Capital	5
Matt Cutts	5
Michael Birch	5
Nils Johnson	5
Oliver Jung	5
Paul Graham	5
Pejman Nozad	5
Quest Venture Partners	5
Russell Siegelman	5
Spark Capital	5
True Ventures	5
Other	990

Gender Gap: 7% of founders are Female

*Note: We have the names of the founders of 449 companies, out of the 698 in this Silk.

Repeat Visitors: Founders of multiple YC backed companies

Geographical Distribution of Funded Companies

*Note: Country information, from CrunchBase and AngelList, is available for 398/698 companies

Country-level distribution of funded companies

Top 10 categories of startups funded by gender

*Note: We collected the CrunchBase or AngelList tags of 547/698 startups.

The five startups that raised the most money

*Note: Data is from CrunchBase, and is available for 569/698 startups. Funding totals includes all rounds.

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