Y Combinator is a seed-stage startup funding firm, started in 2005 by Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell, and Jessica Livingston. Y Combinator provides seed money, advice, and connections at two 3-month programs a year in Cambridge and Mountain View. In exchange, they take on average about 6% of the company's equity.
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Y Combinator
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Paul Graham
Paul Graham (born 1965) is a programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is known for his work on Lisp and for co-founding Viaweb, which eventually became...
Robert Tappan Morris
Robert Tappan Morris, (born November 8, 1965), is an associate professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the Institute's department of Electrical...
Trevor Blackwell
Trevor Blackwell (born 4 November 1969 in Canada) is a computer programmer and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley.
Blackwell is a developer of humanoid...
Jessica Livingston
Jessica Livingston is an author and a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator. She also organizes Startup School. She has a B.A. in...
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