Y Combinator
                                                                                                                                - 02/03/2022
 - Seed
 - $2,200,000
 
Y Combinator (YC) is a startup fund and program. Since 2005, YC has invested in nearly 3,000 companies including Airbnb, DoorDash, Stripe, Instacart, Dropbox, and Coinbase. The combined valuation of YC companies is over $300B. YC has programs and resources that support founders throughout the life of their company. Startup School teaches the basics of starting a company. The YC batch program helps founders as they build their product, talk to their customers, and raise funding. Work at a Startup makes it easy for founders to find their first engineers. YC Series A helps founders launch their A round. YC Growth Program provides founders with resources to scale their companies and hire an executive team, and YC Continuity invests in their later stage rounds
- Industry Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
 - Website http://www.ycombinator.org
 - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/y%C2%A0combinator/
 
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Garry TanInvestor
                                                    
                                                                                                                United States -
                                                         San Francisco, California
                                                    
                                                President & CEO of Y Combinator. Previously a partner at YC 2011-2015 and built major software including Bookface and Demo Day realtime video. I'm a designer, PM & engineer turned investor and helper to startups.
Subscribe to my YouTube channel at youtube.com/garrytan
Founder, board partner and advisor at Initialized Capital, an early stage venture capital fund that was earliest in Coinbase and Instacart. Previously managing partner where we grew it to $3.2B in assets under management and startups worth more than $200 billion in market value in 10 years. Forbes Midas List Top 100 Global VC 2019-2022, recently #28.
Before that, I cofounded Posterous and helped build it to a world-class website used by millions. (Acquired by Twitter) I also cofounded the engineering team for Palantir Technology's quant finance analysis platform, and designed the current Palantir logo and wordmark.
I love building things.
Specialties: user-centered design, project management, software engineering, interaction design, visual design, entrepreneurship, bootstrapping, branding, design, technical architecture, scaling 
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