Fundraising and Equity: The most comprehensive guide on why, when, and how to raise money for your startup.
YC Safe Financing Documents | Y Combinator
Information about startup documents, including the safe (simple agreement for future equity).
How to build your seed round pitch deck : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator
Y Combinator has helped thousands of founders create pitch decks for their seed round fundraising. Here is the YC seed deck template that works.
Startup Playbook
We spend a lot of time advising startups. Though one-on-one advice will always be crucial, we thought it might help us scale Y Combinator if we could distill the most generalizable parts of this advice into a sort of playbook we could give YC and YC Fellowship companies.
Requests for Startups | Y Combinator
Y Combinator is looking for startups working on these ideas. If you're working on something we're interested in, we'd love to hear from you.
What's it like being a nonprofit in Y Combinator? | 80,000 Hours
Now the obligatory Tech Crunch article is out, I'm thrilled to announce we've been in Y Combinator (YC) since June. YC is widely regarded as the world's best startup accelerator, and has supported companies such as AirBnB, Reddit and Dropbox. It provides investment and intensive coaching over three months. I've had a lot of questions about YC over the last couple of days.
YC Has Changed | Y Combinator
As YC grows, founders are wondering how it’s improved over time. This is a valid line of questioning – clearly much has changed about YC over 13 years. We have new leadership [http://www.ycombinator.com/people/], much larger batch sizes [https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/batch-stats/], we invest more money [http://www.ycombinator.com/deal/], we have a growth fund [http://www.ycombinator.com/continuity/], a series A program [https://blog.ycombinator.com/introducing-yc-series-a-batches/], a ma
How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years | Y Combinator
Back when YC was getting started about 10 years ago, Paul Graham wrote some [http://www.paulgraham.com/webstartups.html] essays [http://www.paulgraham.com/future.html] that predicted the way startup fundraising would change in the next decade – accurately, it turns out. Paul Graham predicted that there would be way more startups, that they’d be cheaper to start, that new kinds of investors would fund them, that founders would be more technical, and that founders would keep control of their compa
Funds that lead pre-seeds — Curated VC Funds
A curated list of investors who write first checks at the earliest stage, backing founders before traction when conviction matters most. View this sheet and more on VC Sheet, where founders find the right investors for their round. Curated by Mat Vogels.
The Decentralized Future Series | Y Combinator
A good method for discovering startup ideas is to look into technological breakthroughs and think about what they unlock that wasn't possible before. In this introductory post, we are going to use this framework to examine Bitcoin.
Ten more unintuitive things about impact philanthropy fundraising
some more lessons I’ve learned, for the $free.99
What is the best way to fund your startup?
47 votes, 44 comments. If you’re married or have kids starting a business can be a lot harder. You have more to lose and more people depending on…
Give Lively - A Free Fundraising Platform For Nonprofits
We built and support a powerful and practical fundraising platform that is free for nonprofits and intuitively easy to use for donors. Sign up today for Fundraising Pages, Text-to-Donate, Peer-to-Peer, Event Ticketing, and more!
Introducing The Unusual Method
From Unusual Ventures’ inception, our mission has been clear: to redefine seed stage investing and build a firm that would provide founders with a distinct advantage through the hardest leg of a startup journey—from Idea to Product Market fit. Today we’ve taken an important step towards fulfilling our mission. We are proud to officially make available The Unusual Method and our Unusual Field Guide.
America’s Seed Fund – NSF SBIR/STTR | NSF SBIR
America’s Seed Fund powered by the National Science Foundation (NSF SBIR/STTR) supports startups with research and development funding to create technologies.