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Y CombinatorStartup Accelerator

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator from Silicon Valley, launched in March 2005. More than over 2,000 companies, including Stripe, Airbnb, Cruise Automation, DoorDash, Coinbase, Instacart, Dropbox and Twitch have launched. The combined valuation of the topompanies was over US$155 billion as of October 2019.

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500 StartupsStartup Accelerator

500 Startups is an early-stage venture fund and seed accelerator founded in 2010 by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai. The fund admitted a first class of twelve startups to its incubator office in Mountain View, California in February, 2011.

TechstarsStartup Accelerator

Techstars is an American seed accelerator founded in 2006 in Boulder, Colorado. As of 2019, the company had accepted over 1,600 companies into its programs with a combined market capitalization of $18.2bn USD. Less than 1% of applicants are accepted.

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Sequoia CapitalVenture capital company

Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California and mainly focuses on the technology industry. It has backed companies that now control $1.4 trillion of combined stock market value.

Andreessen HorowitzVenture capital company

500 Startups is an early-stage venture fund and seed accelerator founded in 2010 by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai. The fund admitted a first class of twelve startups to its incubator office in Mountain View, California in February, 2011.

AccelVenture capital company

Accel, formerly known as Accel Partners, is an American venture capital firm. Accel works with startups in seed, early and growth-stage investments. The company has offices in Palo Alto, California and San Francisco, California, with additional operating funds in London, India and China.

BenchmarkVenture capital company

Benchmark is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco that provides seed money to startups. The firm's most successful investment was a 1997 investment of $6.7 million in eBay for 22.1% of the company. In 2011, it invested $12 million for an 11% stake in Uber, worth $7 billion in 2019.

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