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Hmm. Selection bias perhaps? How many medical devices, nano materials, chemical sensors and life science, etc. startups applied to the last Y-Combinator cohort?
by sblank 14y ago
Hmm. Selection bias perhaps? How many medical devices, nano materials, chemical sensors and life science, etc. startups applied to the last Y-Combinator cohort? The hundreds of hard science teams I see every year don't send you applications.
- pg 14y agoWe started out specializing in software, so we rarely get these types of applications. But you can build important infrastructure using software (indeed, most of the examples you give are largely or mostly software). And the companies we fund that are building such things do not have a harder time raising money than the companies building social apps.
- brlewis 14y agoThe hundreds of hard science teams I see every year don't send you applications. Maybe some of them should. Sure, the direct experience of most of the YC partners is web-centric, but they're connected enough in SV that YC might be a big benefit, especially if any of those teams are amenable to a 3-month build cycle.