{"id":54855,"date":"2023-10-20T16:29:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/yc-backed-startups-now-worth-more-than-65-billion-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T16:29:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:29:07","slug":"yc-backed-startups-now-worth-more-than-65-billion-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/yc-backed-startups-now-worth-more-than-65-billion-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"YC-backed startups now worth more than $65 billion &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"445\" height=\"352\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/l_yc.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_yc\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Nearly a third of all Y Combinator-backed startups have shut down, but those that are left are now worth more than $US65 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>YC president Sam Altman answered some questions <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ycombinator.com\/yc-stats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a blog post<\/a> that he gets asked \u201ca lot\u201d, and had some interesting stats about the startups that have passed through its doors.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It comes after the YC summer batch demo days last week that saw a much higher percentage of hardware-focused startups than previous years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Y Combinator has now backed about 940 startups which have raised over $7 billion in funding and are worth collectively over $65 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cValuations and fundraising are not success, but we get asked about this so often we try to update our numbers every year or so,\u201d Altman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sama\/status\/636583301155680256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The companies that took part in YC\u2019s winter batch earlier this year have already attracted $227 million in investment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The stats also show that YC has backed 40 companies now worth over $100 million, and eight are now worth more than $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you think your startup is the next YC-backed unicorn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ycombinator.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">applications for the next batch<\/a> open on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Raising your <\/i><a href=\"startupschool\/events\/hacking-your-first-investment-round\/\"><i>first round of capital<\/i><\/a><i>? Starting a <\/i><a href=\"startupschool\/events\/secrets-of-successful-crowdfunding\/\"><i>crowdfunding campaign<\/i><\/a><i>? Want to grow your business <\/i><a href=\"startupschool\/events\/how-to-use-instagram-to-grow-your-business\/\"><i>with Instagram?<\/i><\/a><i> StartupSmart School can help.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a third of all Y Combinator-backed startups have shut down, but those that are left are now worth more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}