Y Combinator

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Formation2005
Technology investor which has launched more than 4,000 companies, including Airbnb, Reddit and Dropbox.

Y Combinator (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator launched in March 2005. It has been used to launch more than 4,000 companies, including Airbnb, Coinbase, Cruise, DoorDash, Dropbox, Instacart, Quora, PagerDuty, Reddit, Stripe and Twitch. The combined valuation of the top YC companies was more than $600 billion by January 2023. The company's accelerator program started in Boston and Mountain View, expanded to San Francisco in 2019, and was entirely online during the "COVID-19 pandemic". Forbes characterized the company in 2012 as one of the most successful startup accelerators in Silicon Valley.



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