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YC Top Companies List by Revenue

Congratulations to the companies recognized on the inaugural YC Top Companies List by Revenue!
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YC Library

Explore some of the best YC videos, podcasts, and essays from over the years. Come learn how to make something people want.
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The Standard Deal

When a company is accepted into the YC batch program, we invest a total of $500,000.
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Top Companies

We help foundersmake something people want and the results speak for themselves.

We help founders at their earliest stages regardless of their age.

We improve the success rate of our startups.

We give startups a huge fundraising advantage.

Our companies have a track record of becoming billion dollar companies.

54% of YC’s billion dollar companies had no revenue when they applied

54% of YC’s billion dollar company founders were under 28 years old and the oldest founder was in their 50s

42% of YC’s billion dollar companies applied with only an idea

39% of YC companies have raised a Series A

18% of YC companies are valued at $100M+

4% of YC companies have become billion dollar companies

YC companies have raised money at 2.5x higher valuation after participating in the program

The median YC company raises $1.3M+ at $14M valuation cap after participating in the program

The top 10% of YC companies raise $1.8M+ at $20M valuation cap after participating in the program

YC has funded 90+ billion dollar companies

66% of those companies had YC as their first investor

YC companies have an average 15B market cap at the time of public exit, 3x higher than average

Our formula for success.

YC is run by startup founders who have built exactly what they wanted when starting and growing a startup.

The most experienced partners

Each founder is assigned a dedicated group partner who has mentored hundreds of YC companies. They have more data on what it takes to build a successful startup than any other early stage startup advisor. These group partners read applications, interview companies, and mentor startups throughout the batch. You can access them in person, over email, and on Slack.

Investor network

YC companies have raised $85 billion dollars from the best investors in the world. Our founders have access to the YC Investor Database which has profiles and reviews for more than 50,000 startup investors.

Private social network only for founders

YC founders get to benefit from the collective wisdom of over 9000 YC alumni. They can access these alums through Bookface, our private social network. We have a forum for asking questions to the community, a founder directory for finding specific people who can provide advice and intros, and a company directory for finding potential customers.

Exclusive deals

YC founders have access to over 1000 deals from leading software companies. Every YC company gets free credits or significant discounts on hosting, banking, cap table management, back office, and much more. Companies report these deals to be worth in excess of $500,000.

The best written advice

YC founders get to benefit from our collective experience funding 5000 companies across almost 20 years. We have extensive documentation for common questions about fundraising, go to market, sales, product market fit, mental health, hiring, and much more.

Networks to build your team

Through Work at a Startup and HN, we help our founders hire the small number of early engineers and other team members critical to finding product market fit. At any given time there are 150,000+ candidates searching for jobs at early stage YC companies.

Trusted by the world’s leading companies

We put founders’ interests first.

We don’t take a board seat.

We don’t take weeks/months to decide to invest.

We don’t require decks, business plans, or MBAs.

We don’t demand 20% of your company.

We don’t charge fees.

We don’t tell you what to do. We only offer advice.

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