Y Combinator

Y Combinator Management, LLC
Company type	Private
Industry	Startup accelerator
Founded	March 2005
Founders	Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert Tappan Morris, Trevor Blackwell
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, United States
Number of locations	2 offices (2014)
Key people	Garry Tan (CEO) ; Michael Seibel ; Jared Friedman
Products	Venture capital, investments
Website	ycombinator.com

Y Combinator Management, LLC (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm launched in March 2005^[1] which has been used to launch more than 4,000 companies.^[2] The accelerator program started in Boston and Mountain View, expanded to San Francisco in 2019, and was entirely online during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[3] Companies started via Y Combinator include Airbnb, Coinbase, Cruise, DoorDash, Dropbox, Instacart, Reddit, Stripe, and Twitch.^[4]

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