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Status of every startup incubated by Y Combinator and other seed accelerators
- niekmaas 17y agoThe topic poster makes it pretty sure that he is NOT the author/editor. So stop posting missing info! If you think data should be added, e-mail jed.christiansen@gmail.com
- daleharvey 17y agoI have emailed the author pointing him to this thread for corrections.
- steveklabnik 17y agoLots of these comments (including mine, for example) were made before that comment was written.
- mixmax 17y agoDoing some numbers: When you add the acquisitions together you get $56 mill. Assuming that YC has an average stake of 7% they've made $3.9 mill from the acquisitions so far. If you assume the expenditures to be $10.000 per startup that's $1.74 mill, since there are 174 companies in the spreadsheet. Also, since the YC guys need to get paid there's probably an overhead of $500.000 a year for five years. That's $2.5 mill. Adding the two numbers give you $4.24. mill. So if you include a nice wage for the four YC founders they're not making a profit yet, actually they're down $340.000. Of course these numbers are wildly inaccurate, and don't include future acquisitions, etc.
- jackowayed 17y agoSome places you can improve your numbers: * They start with ~7%, but almost all funding deals mean they get diluted. The bigger the acquisition, the more funding the company has taken (in general), so the less equity YC has (which means figuring out the average, even if you could, wouldn't help you much because the bigger funding deals would get overrepresented when you multiplied average equity * big exit where they actually were down to <1%). * The average investment is more like $20k. It's $11k+$3k/founder, so $17k for a 2-person company and $20k for a 3-person. I think that changed fairly recently though. I remember it being all 5's and 10's when I first heard about YC. Maybe $10k+$5k/founder? So that'd be $20k for 2 founders, $25k for 3. There's also probably a decent amount of money spent to fly people out to the interviews. $600/startup, if you assume they interview 2-3x as many as they fund, that's ~$1200 more per funded startup, or an additional 5% or so. Plus there's the cost of the office and utilties and dinners and such. (Just wondering, how nice/expensive is the food at the dinners?) But I think they're operating with a trend that shows that they will be highly profitable when you consider all the startups that they've already funded that will exit.
- rokhayakebe 17y agoI assume Dropbox and Loopt will change these numbers drastically. It is almost certain YC will have one 100M + exit from its pool of startups.
- rms 17y agoAnd Justin.tv is a UFC pay-per-view deal away from validating an entire industry... it is probably going to take them a while though, the UFC guy acted really angry at the congressional hearings on the subject of online live streaming video.
- faramarz 17y agoDon't forget, this time last year Sequoia injected $2 million into YC's new fund. Ron Conway, Paul Buchheit and Aydin Senkut all included. That means the startups in Summer '09, Winter '09 and this summers are probably being seeded using that fund.
- jedc 17y agoI generally was VERY conservative in my acquisition numbers. (I could easily make the case for bumping all the non-public prices by 50+%) The way I've generally looked at it is that YC has generally broken even or had a small profit so far on the exits they've had. They'll likely generate their massive return once companies like Dropbox, Loopt, etc have their exits.
- steveklabnik 17y agoYou're missing the third and fourth classes of the program I went through (AlphaLab) as well as an exit from one of the companies, and some deaths.
- daleharvey 17y agoSad to have to point out that Kublax recently had to shut down their service, wish the best to the guys.
- daleharvey 17y agoalso the url for hypernumbers is hypernumbers.com
- qaexl 17y agoOT: That was interesting, watching Google Docs report anonymous users logging in to read the document.
- aw3c2 17y agoHow is that possible? All I get is a login page.
- treyp 17y agoit should be noted that even though i submitted this, i'm not its creator or editor. for corrections, you can email Jed Christiansen as detailed on the first sheet.
- niravs 17y agoWould've been nice if this was editable.
- abraham 17y agohttp://www.sproutbox.com/ http://www.sproutbox.com/ is missing.
- rodyancy 17y agohttp://www.betaspring.com/ http://www.betaspring.com/ is missing.
- tsondermann 17y agoI can speak to the specifics of last summers class at Betaspring (our first class), if anyone here is interested. tsondermann at betaspring
- Aetius 17y agoWeddingbook was acquired (fbFund). Not sure of the price.
- ivankirigin 17y agoThere are so many on the list that I know will continue as apps but essentially aren't companies anymore. Those kinds of transitions don't come with a press release. So don't trust any math about those that have not exited. Further, the really important stat for YC is the number of big wins. They still have not idea how many there will be.
- paraschopra 17y agoHey, how do you estimate the acquisition price?
- jedc 17y agoHey, everyone. I'm the guy who originally put this spreadsheet together. Couple things: - I welcome corrections! - Acquisition prices are likely wildly wrong since they're just my guesses. (Again, I welcome guidance/corrections) - This list is not exhaustive, though I'm trying to make it complete. I started it to help in my analysis of seed accelerators I did for my MBA thesis. (Insert MBA stereotypes here) I keep it going because I find it interesting and hoped people might find it useful.
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