YC's W21 batch featured 43 Indian startups, a new record, and had 350 startups in total, of which 50% were based outside the US, the highest percentage to date
W21 — features 350 startups from 41 nations. Fifty percent of the firms, the highest percentage to date, in the new batch are based outside of the US. India is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch.” https://techcrunch.com/... Y Combinator / @ycombinator : We are often asked about our growing batch size. YC President @gralston wrote about this today in a post about scaling YC: https://blog.ycombinator.com/ ... Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : “From our earliest batches VCs claimed that YC funded too many companies, that the batches were too large. They were as wrong then as they are still wrong today, and YC will continue to fund more and more epic companies.” https://blog.ycombinator.com/ ... Anu Hariharan / @anuhariharan : “We have always wanted to fund as many great founders as possible and are convinced that in the incoming torrent of applications there are hundreds of startups with epic potential, if we could only work with them and make them part of the YC community” https://blog.ycombinator.com/ ...
Over 50 percent of @ycombinator new batch is Indian startups. Building for India is getting attention with most selected startups offering Hyperlocal, Fintech, SMB, Edtech solutions @NASSCOMStartUps https://techcrunch.com/...
Dichotomy of YC vs Ivy Leagues YC: Continues to scale w/ demand. Many say diluting the prestige for each company. Ivy: Focus on the prestige by arbitrarily limiting admittance #'s. Only scaling is admin & endowments. YC gets a lot of slack but seems like a huge net positive 🌎 htt…
“Y Combinator's latest batch — W21 — features 350 startups from 41 nations. Fifty percent of the firms, the highest percentage to date, in the new batch are based outside of the US. India is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch.” https://techcrunch.com/...
We are often asked about our growing batch size. YC President @gralston wrote about this today in a post about scaling YC: https://blog.ycombinator.com/ ...
“From our earliest batches VCs claimed that YC funded too many companies, that the batches were too large. They were as wrong then as they are still wrong today, and YC will continue to fund more and more epic companies.” https://blog.ycombinator.com/ ...
“We have always wanted to fund as many great founders as possible and are convinced that in the incoming torrent of applications there are hundreds of startups with epic potential, if we could only work with them and make them part of the YC community” https://blog.ycombinator.co…