Founders of these companies:
- Sweep (AI coder)
- Rightpage (AI customer support)
- KinoAI (AI video editing)
- Sidenote (AI meeting notes)
- Fiber AI (AI Marketo)
- Simbie Health (AI for nurse practitioners)
- Flint (AI for schools)
- Elyos Energy (energy flexibility)
- Happy Robot (AI customer support)
- Kobalt Labs (LLM data privacy)
- Revamp (AI customer seg.)
- Strada (dev-first enterprise integration)
- Envelope (AI banking)
- Automorphic (LLM fine-tuning)
- Quill (easy reporting + ETL)
- Gleam (health insurance for brokers)
- Trayd (construction same-day pay)
- SpineAI (AI copilots)
- Eden Care (health insurance Africa)
- Greenlite (fintech AI compliane)
- Cercli (Rippling for Middle East & North Africa)
- Fortuna Health (TurboTax for Medicaid)
- Mentorship and Support
- get roasted by Michael Seibel
- honest feedback and to quickly iterate in a short 3-month period
- Working with Partners
- rare that a VC firm has partners who have gone through building companies
- people who have gone through the experience
- Community and Network
- being part of a community of like-minded people
- starting a company is a road that few people traverse on
- having a network of people who understand what you're going through as a founder
- Following YC and it's Reputation
- reader of hackernews and Paul Graham essay
- track record, the name, the power of YC network
- Hiring and Funding
- the best people in the world want to work in YC companies
- right amount of money with right amount of time (3 months) with demo day at the end
- funding is becoming challenging, YC brings validation and credibility
- Building Network Outside Bay Area
- people building in other parts of the world get to meet people in the Bay area
Peek at DoorDash's application video 10 years ago