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Y Combinator (YC) is a seed funding company that was launched in 2005. Since then it has funded more than 2 thousand companies including some popular ones such as Dropbox, Stripe, Airbnb, Reddit, Zapier, Coinbase, and Twitch.

We have analyzed the domain names of Y Combinator companies to see what kind of domain names they use.



Y Combinator on a Glimpse
The valuation of Y Combinator companies was over $150 Billion as of October 2019, totally. In their own words:

“Twice a year, we invest a small amount of money in a large number of startups. We have two batches per year – one from January through March and one from June through August.”

This batch took place 30 times until now. The latest one was in Winter 2020. We analyzed 2,212 companies funded by Y Combinator from 2005 to 2020.

You'll find in this article:
  • Investments of Y Combinator by Years
  • Y Combinator’s Investment Categories
  • Most Visited Y Combinator Websites
  • Most Funded Companies
  • Extension Preferences
  • gTLD – ccTLD Distribution
  • Domain Creation Dates
  • Domain Length
  • Domain Purchases of Y Combinator Companies
  • Top 10 Domain Registrars
  • .COM Preference by Years
  • Domain Names of Top Y Combinator Companies by Valuation

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Thank you for this thorough evaluation. I have always been fascinated by Paul Graham. I think he is a highly under-rated VC and visionary.
 
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A great company always starts by buying a great domain name
 
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