INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Y Combinator has become its own economy since its founding in 2005, as the formative seed-stage venture fund has nurtured leading startups
themselves (Stripe and Gusto are two of the most widely known examples, to date).With its second Demo Day of the year wrapped up last month,
the firm has also launched its largest group of startups ever in 2019.CEO Michael Seibel will be joining us onstage at Disrupt SF this
in the first place these days, and what it takes to build a company that can make a list like this
Seibel and Rowghani will also be available for an extra-long question-and-answer portion of the talk with attendees as a part of our Extra
Crunch-themed stage at the conference.While the full details of the list will be unveiled on October 2nd, they note that the ranking will be
Other metrics, like revenue, are more often kept private
token value, rev/employee ratio, or other methods of measuring value
sector that it is a part of.To date, YC says it has backed more than 4,000 founders, who have created more than 2,000 companies that
together are worth more than $100 billion
Among the top 100 companies who made the list last year, it says 93 were valued at more than $100 million and had between them created more
about the investment theses and trends that it is betting on.Disrupt SF runs October 2 to October 4 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco
Tickets are available here.*Disclosure: I went through YC myself (w07) but have no financial relationship with it today, cap table or
