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I'm a fan of both, but it's quite premature to say that they're operating on the same order of magnitude at this point. • Seedcamp has only had one large exit
by wheels 15y ago
I'm a fan of both, but it's quite premature to say that they're operating on the same order of magnitude at this point.
• Seedcamp has only had one large exit (> $1M), whereas YC has had more than a dozen.
• YC funds more companies per batch now than Seedcamp has funded total.
• I'd guess that there's a two order of magnitude gap in the portfolio worth of YC vs. Seedcamp right now (given that AirBnb and Dropbox together have a valuation around the $6 billion mark).
Seedcamp on the other hand is more inclusive and network oriented -- it's borders are a lot fuzzier, so it's influenced a lot of companies (mine included) that weren't funded by it.
- amirmc 15y agoGreat summary. You've essentially pointed out the differences in their models. YC funds a lot of companies per batch only operating in one location. Seedcamp only takes 10-20 teams at a time but runs short events all over Europe. Of course, there are many many other differences but these are the most obvious.