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Y Combinator provides seed funding for startups. Seed funding is the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays your expenses while you’re getting started. Some companies may need no more than seed funding. Others will go through several rounds. There is no right answer; how much funding you need depends on the kind of company you start.

At Y Combinator, our goal is to get you through the first phase. This usually means: get you to the point where you’ve built something impressive enough to raise money on a larger scale. Then we can introduce you to later stage investors—or occasionally even acquirers.

Brad Flora

Aaron Harris

Dalton Caldwell

Kat Manalac

Jessica Livingston

Gustaf Alstromer

Adora Cheung

Geoff Ralston

Paul Graham

Avichal Garg

Sam Altman

Anu Hariharan

Y Combinator

Cleva Banking

EthosX

HomeDAO

PrimeVault

Poko

Portfolio

CypherHunter Plus

Y Combinator

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