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Congratulations to the 2024 YC Top Companies! Since 2005, YC has funded over 4,500 startups, including many that have become household names. The companies on this year's list are collectively valued at $458B, with a combined $57.2B in total revenue generated in 2023. Here are some more facts about the YC Top Companies this year: 🔸 13 companies (27%) on the list have had an exit, 11 are publicly traded. 🔸 Together, these companies employ over 80k people. 🔸 Over 50% are headquartered in the Bay Area. 🔸 Over 90% were founded by 2 or more co-founders. Congrats to the founders who are making something people want!

Over 50% of the businesses in the most recent group of Y Combinator were admitted to the program solely based on an idea, without requiring a minimum viable product or a plan for generating revenue. Additionally, out of 272 startups, only 32 were established by individuals who identified as Hispanic or Latino. A list of all the startups from the Winter Batch of 2023 is available here in case you missed the most recent Demo Day. #startups #YC #Demoday #WB23 https://lnkd.in/e_mJ6E8K

This is great advice for any founders/startups . Focus on a small market and do your best to capture that first before you address the larger whole.

Really epic advice here from Sam Altman (back in his days as the Y Combinator President) talking about how the BEST startups start by capturing LOTS of a super small market. Read More 👇 Soooooo many startups I speak with and we work with start with these HUGE, astronomically big markets and say "LOOK, we only need to capture 1% and that's TONS of money!". What Sam is conveying here, is that in the research at Y Combinator, they found that their biggest startup successes were ones that actually went for a tiny sub-set of these big markets, or even chased small markets with the intention of dominating them. I think a lot of this can be distilled into the old "Vitamin vs Pain Killer" argument. Finding people who are desperate for what your solution provides and it offers them instant / valuable relief from their problem is super important. If you are a small company, you can only provide so much value. So finding a small thing you can make a massive impact on is paramount to being "sticky" enough to grow. Great advice here. #startupadvice #ycombinator #startuptips

At Y Combinator, they often discuss the ideas and categories they’d like to see more people working on. Occasionally they gather up all of these ideas and share them in what they call a Request for Startups, or RFS — a Y Combinator tradition that goes back over a decade. Below is the most recent YC's Request For Startups. What do you think of it? Check my free newsletter for more insights: https://lnkd.in/djVbgiKG

A mistake a lot of investors make is judging a YC company by its current state at Demo Day vs. the long-term potential of its founders. I invested in Hightough at $15M (Carry at the time) and although I categorically hate travel startups, I really wanted to work with the founders (ex-Segment). My position is now valued >40x and more importantly I'm excited to write the first check to Hightouch folks who leave to start their own company. YC is about making a bet on young, ambitious, talented people who likely have a few startups in them. #ycombinator #siliconvalley #startupstories #venturecapital

Sifted just published their ranking of “German startups and scaleups to watch in 2023” based on criteria such as funding momentum, market opportunity, competitive advantage and investor strength. 💪 Guess what: Philipps & Byrne have worked with 20% of the companies listed: Either evaluating them in a Tech DD or working with them directly in a Health Check or as tech advisers. 🚀 Not gonna lie - this makes us proud! ❤️ In conversations, we often get the feedback that we play a vital role in the European tech industry and founders and investors see us as true allies. Awesome thing, to see this reflected in the numbers right here! 📈 https://lnkd.in/e5qeCw3T #startup #germanstartups #tech #techdd #techduediligence #vc #venturecapital 

⭐Beyond Unicorns: Exploring New Startup Classifications ⭐ In the world of startups, we often hear about unicorns - those rare and mythical companies with valuations exceeding $1 billion. But as the startup landscape evolves, it's time to expand our terminology and explore new terms that better reflect the diverse range of companies out there. Let me know your view in the comments. 🙂 Follow Sanskriti Agarwal

There are currently about 150K companies on a VC-backed journey: 🔹± 12.5K startups raise their first VC round each year 🔹Roughly 1% of VC-backed startups reach $1B+ valuation while 17 have reached $100B. 🔹At least 50 startups have reached the $1B+ milestone without help of VC. Thatʼs about 1% of the total startup universe. 🔹In summary, the data directionally points to roughly 70% failures, 5% successes and 25% lesser known exits. Check my free newsletter for more insights: https://lnkd.in/dZUs_F_U