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YC World – Explore YC Alumni by Country
- OisinMoran 9y agoWeird, this doesn't seem to have Stripe listed despite it being the first startup listed on ycombinator's homepage.
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- dyarosla 9y agoSadly completely unusable on mobile.
- maxwin 9y agoNeed one from Myanmar
- codegeek 9y agoLooks good. One suggestion if I may: When I click on a country in map, the text listing should show the name of the country and not just the flag. Flags are great but I would rather read "China" than seeing the flag since a lot of us may not know every flag in the world. The top 5 are : United States: 1062 Canada: 62 UK: 42 India: 29 France: 16 Rest are all in single digits so far.
- vtange 9y agoThe map really brings into light Japan's lack of presence in the tech world.. They barely register on the map. I'm surprised India has more presence than China considering how much the news talks about places like Shenzhen.
- wenbin 9y agoChinese is in general not as fluent in English as people in India (English is one of its official languages) or other European countries (easily multilingual). For most educated Chinese who don't have overseas experience, reading is probably okay, but speaking / listening is challenging -- we are trained to take exams growing up (e.g., doing multiple choices on paper). If you can't pitch in fluent English and you can't hire someone to help you (due to the resource constraint of your early stage startup), how can you be properly evaluated by YC or other Silicon Valley VC firms? Another possible reason may be easy to access local capital in China.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoInnovation Works with Kaifu Lee (the guy who used to run google china) is like a Chinese YC. The Chinese market is also very inward facing at this point due to protectionism and the GFW. I'm sure a lot of founders are still Chinese, just that they are coming from the USA (or other countries) before applying to YC.
- rrecuero 9y agoIsrael has 10 as well.
- kk1 9y agoThe link to the company zipphone in India goes to a AliExpress link. Does anyone else see that ?
- rrecuero 9y agozipphone was acquired https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/07/hike-zipphone/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/07/hike-zipphone/
- awaaz 9y agoZipPhone founder here. For some reason my YC profile had a non-existent website listed (awaaz.mobi). I have changed it now to zipphone.com (not hosted, since the company was acquired), and changed the email to founders@zipphone.com.
- rrecuero 9y agoHi everyone, We put together a map that shows where YC companies are from. It’s based on the location of the founders before applying for YC. As a founder and previous YC applicant, I know how daunting the application process can be, especially, when you are far away from San Francisco. Now that I work for YC, I wanted to help build it. Let us know if you have any feedback Thanks
- clbrook 9y agoThis is great! Thanks. Would it be possible to break down the US startups by state? It'd be great to connect with local people, if possible.
- rrecuero 9y agoYeah, we talked about it. We'll probably include it in a future iteration
- starshadowx2 9y agoIf you do US States, could you do Canadian provinces as well?
- haaen 9y agoGreat work. You could add Impraise and Gitlabs to the Netherlands.
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- nnd 9y ago> It’s based on the location of the founders before applying for YC. How exactly do you collect that data? I see at least one company which is off.
- rrecuero 9y ago
- 4mmaro 9y agothe link of the only Polish company goes to a Chinese website
- rrecuero 9y agoCredictive - s2012 is no longer active
- anovikov 9y agoHow comes Sixa is not listed? It is Ukrainian, S16
- dkyc 9y agoInteresting map! German here, surprising to see only 3 German companies have made the list. I don't know what I expected, but 3 YC companies seems like a really low number. (Micro-nitpick: The color scale is a little bit confusing. Darker = more startups; but USA [1,062 startups] and Canada [62] both have #597b9f as color, even though there's a one-thousand-company difference)
- OoTheNigerian 9y agoGood stuff. I noticed an error: Flutterwave and New Incentives are supposed to be in Nigeria not Niger. Niger is above Nigeria (the darkest country in Africa).
- fixie 9y agoVery cool to see companies mapped out. Slight nitpick - I really wish click to drag panning and mousewheel/pinch zooming was supported on the map. Navigating the map was a bit of a chore - mostly for smaller geographically sized countries.
- Jugurtha 9y agoPretty cool. One nitpick: I wish the darkness was proportional to the number of companies. The U.S. is at 1062 and is as dark as countries with 7 or 29. I wish there were more contrast.
- bra-ket 9y agocan't see Israel! I think the founder of Greplin/Cue was from Jerusalem
- rrecuero 9y agoYou need to zoom in to find Israel. There are several companies from Israel
- kozikow 9y agoProbably incorporation affects result by a wide margin. E.g. our company (not YC alumni) is incorporated in Delaware and based in Mountain View, but both founders are Polish and half of the employees are in Poland. On such list, we would come up as USA company. Probably quite a few companies have the same effect.
- rrecuero 9y agoIt is based on the application, where were you located before applying?