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It's interesting to see a16z launch an early-stage accelerator only a couple of weeks after Sequoia announced a similar program: https://techcrunch.com/2022/03
by binarynate 4y ago
It's interesting to see a16z launch an early-stage accelerator only a couple of weeks after Sequoia announced a similar program:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/20/sequoia-arc-outliers https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/20/sequoia-arc-outliers
- ignoramous 4y agoSequoia has been running a similar funding program in ASEAN and South Asia for 4 years now, https://www.surgeahead.com/introducing-surge/ https://www.surgeahead.com/introducing-surge/
- albertshin 4y agofrom what I read on some of the administrators on Twitter the program has been (semi privately) running since last fall and there are already 10+ participants now the decision to take it public may have been motivated by sequoia's launch
- akshayshah 4y agoSame is true of Sequoia's program - it's been running in the US for years already, but was only recently made public. Seems to me that this is yet another way that YC has pressured traditional VCs into being more founder-friendly.