Y Combinator Accelerator Program
Runs Y Combinator Accelerator for early-stage startups with a three-month batch, investment, and mentoring support.
Y Combinator is a Silicon Valley startup accelerator that has been running since 2005 and has funded companies including Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox, and Reddit. The program runs four times per year in winter, spring, summer, and fall batches, each lasting three months and based in San Francisco. YC's investment model delivers $500,000 to every accepted company: $125,000 via a post-money SAFE that con…
Provides $500K in equity investment via SAFE instruments (approximately 7% dilution) to early-stage startups accepted into a three-month accelerator program, run four times annually in San Francisco.
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