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Y Combinator

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Y Combinator is an American seed accelerator, started in March 2005. [1]

95 relations: Aaron Iba, Adora Cheung, Ageism, Airbnb, Alan Kay, Alexis Ohanian, Ali Rowghani, App.net, Argentina, Basic income, Bret Victor, Brian Chesky, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Chile, Coinbase, Convertible security, Cruise Automation, Dalton Caldwell, Denmark, Docker, Inc., DoorDash, Drew Houston, Dropbox (service), Emmett Shear, Equity (finance), Exec (errand service), Fast Company (magazine), Forbes, Fortune (magazine), Garry Tan, Geoff Ralston, Germany, Gmail, Hacker News, Heroku, Homejoy, Imeem, India, Initial public offering, Instacart, Israel, Jared Friedman, Jessica Livingston, Justin Kan, Justin.tv, Limited liability company, List of Y Combinator startups, Loopt, Mexico, Michael Seibel, ..., Mixpanel, Mountain View, California, MZ (company), Nigeria, OpenAI, Optimizely, Paribus, Patrick Collison, Patrick Scaglia, Paul Buchheit, Paul Graham (programmer), Portugal, Posterous, Pro rata, Product/market fit, Reddit, Robert Tappan Morris, RocketMail, Russia, Sam Altman, Scalability, Scribd, Seed money, Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley, Socialcam, Startup accelerator, Stripe (company), SurveyMonkey, SV Angel, Sweden, TechCrunch, Techstars, Trevor Blackwell, Twitch.tv, United States, Venture capital, Vi Hart, Viaweb, Watsi, Weebly, Yuri Milner, Zenefits, Zidisha, 500 Startups. Expand index (45 more) »

Aaron Iba

Aaron Iba (born June 18, 1983) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur.

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Adora Cheung

Adora Cheung is an American software developer.

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Ageism

Ageism (also spelled "agism") is stereotyping of and discrimination against individuals or groups on the basis of their age.

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Airbnb

Airbnb is an American company which operates an online marketplace and hospitality service for people to lease or rent short-term lodging including holiday cottages, apartments, homestays, hostel beds, or hotel rooms, to participate in or facilitate experiences related to tourism such as walking tours, and to make reservations at restaurants.

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Alan Kay

Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940 published by the Association for Computing Machinery 2012) is an American computer scientist.

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Alexis Ohanian

Alexis Kerry Ohanian (born April 24, 1983).

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Ali Rowghani

Ali Rowghani (علی روغنی, born 21 January 1973) is an Iranian-born American businessman.

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App.net

App.net was an ad-free online social networking service and microblogging service which enabled its users to write messages of up to 256 characters.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.

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Basic income

A basic income, also called basic income guarantee, universal basic income (UBI), basic living stipend (BLS) or universal demogrant, is a type of program in which citizens (or permanent residents) of a country may receive a regular sum of money from the government.

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Bret Victor

Bret Victor is an interface designer, computer scientist, and electrical engineer known for his talks on the future of technology.

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Brian Chesky

Brian Joseph Chesky (born August 29, 1981) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the hospitality exchange service Airbnb.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Coinbase

Coinbase is a digital currency exchange headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Convertible security

A convertible security is a security that can be converted into another security.

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Cruise Automation

GM Cruise LLC, commonly referred to as "Cruise" or "Cruise Automation," is an American driverless car company headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Dalton Caldwell

Dalton Caldwell (born February 27, 1980) is a technologist and digital music entrepreneur.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Docker, Inc.

Docker, Inc is the company behind development of Docker (software), an open-source project that automates the deployment of code inside software containers.

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DoorDash

DoorDash Inc. is an on-demand restaurant delivery service founded in 2013 by Stanford students Andy Fang, Stanley Tang, Tony Xu and Evan Moore.

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Drew Houston

Andrew W. "Drew" Houston (pronounced "HOUS-ton"; born March 4, 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur who is best known for being the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service.

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Dropbox (service)

Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.

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Emmett Shear

Emmett Shear (born 1983) is an Internet entrepreneur and investor.

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Equity (finance)

In accounting, equity (or owner's equity) is the difference between the value of the assets and the value of the liabilities of something owned.

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Exec (errand service)

Exec was a company based in San Francisco, United States, that provided companies and individuals access to on-demand personal assistants (for delivery, furniture assembly, research, etc.) and cleaning services.

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Fast Company (magazine)

Fast Company is a monthly American business magazine published in print and online that focuses on technology, business, and design.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is an American multinational business magazine headquartered in New York City, United States.

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Garry Tan

Garry Tan (born March 21, 1981) is the cofounder of Posterous and Posthaven.

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Geoff Ralston

Geoff Ralston is the CEO of La La Media, Inc., developer of Lala, a web browser-based music distribution site.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Gmail

Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service developed by Google.

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Hacker News

Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship.

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Heroku

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages.

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Homejoy

Homejoy was an online platform which connected customers with home service providers, including house cleaners and handymen.

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Imeem

The online service imeem was a social media web site where users interacted with each other by streaming, uploading and sharing music and music videos.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Initial public offering

Initial public offering (IPO) or stock market launch is a type of public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also retail (individual) investors; an IPO is underwritten by one or more investment banks, who also arrange for the shares to be listed on one or more stock exchanges.

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Instacart

Instacart is an American company that operates as a same-day grocery delivery service.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

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Jared Friedman

Jared Friedman (born 1984) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor.

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Jessica Livingston

Jessica Livingston (born 5 February 1971) is an American author and a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator.

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Justin Kan

Justin Kan (born 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor.

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Justin.tv

Justin.tv was a website created by Justin Kan, Emmett Shear, Michael Seibel and Kyle Vogt in 2007 to allow anyone to broadcast video online.

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Limited liability company

A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States of America-specific form of a private limited company.

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List of Y Combinator startups

The following notable startups have completed the Y Combinator Accelerator program.

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Loopt

Loopt was a company based in Mountain View, California, United States which provided a service for smartphone users to share their location selectively with other people (see location-based service).

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Michael Seibel

Michael Seibel (born October 7, 1982) is CEO and a partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv and Socialcam.

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Mixpanel

Mixpanel is a business analytics service company.

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Mountain View, California

Mountain View is a city located in Santa Clara County, California, United States, named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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MZ (company)

Machine Zone, Inc.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.

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OpenAI

OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company that aims to promote and develop friendly AI in such a way as to benefit humanity as a whole.

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Optimizely

Optimizely is an American company that makes customer experience optimization software for other companies.

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Paribus

Paribus is an American company and creator of the price tracking app of the same name, which syncs with a user's email account to scan for receipts and negotiates with online companies to refund the difference if there is a price drop shortly after a purchase.

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Patrick Collison

Patrick Collison (born 9 September 1988) is an Irish entrepreneur from County Limerick.

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Patrick Scaglia

Patrick Scaglia is chairman of the Y Combinator Research's project Human Advancement Research Community (HARC).

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Paul Buchheit

Paul T. Buchheit is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur.

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Paul Graham (programmer)

Paul Graham (born 13 November 1964) is an English born computer scientist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and essayist.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.

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Posterous

Posterous was a simple blogging platform started in May 2008.

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Pro rata

Pro rata is an adverb or adjective, meaning in proportion.

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Product/market fit

Product/market fit is the degree to which a product satisfies a strong market demand.

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Reddit

Reddit (stylized in its logo as reddit) is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website.

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Robert Tappan Morris

Robert Tappan Morris (born November 8, 1965) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the Morris Worm in 1988, considered the first computer worm on the Internet. Morris was prosecuted for releasing the worm, and became the first person convicted under the then-new Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He went on to co-found the online store Viaweb, one of the first web-based applications, and later the funding firm Y Combinator—both with Paul Graham. He later joined the faculty in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received tenure in 2006.

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RocketMail

RocketMail was one of the first major, free webmail services.

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Russia

Russia (rɐˈsʲijə), officially the Russian Federation (p), is a country in Eurasia. At, Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 144 million people as of December 2017, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east. Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic. The Russian economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has been characterised as a potential superpower. It is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and an active global partner of ASEAN, as well as a member of the G20, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Council of Europe, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as being the leading member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and one of the five members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), along with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

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Sam Altman

Samuel H. "Sam" Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger.

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Scalability

Scalability is the capability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work, or its potential to be enlarged to accommodate that growth.

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Scribd

Scribd is a digital library, e-book and audiobook subscription service that includes one million titles.

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Seed money

Seed money, sometimes known as seed funding or seed capital, is a form of securities offering in which an investor invests capital in exchange for an equity stake in the company.

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Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm.

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Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley (abbreviated as SV) is a region in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, referring to the Santa Clara Valley, which serves as the global center for high technology, venture capital, innovation, and social media.

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Socialcam

Socialcam was a mobile social video application for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone, that was launched March 7, 2011 and ended October 28 2015.

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Startup accelerator

Startup accelerators, also known as seed accelerators, are fixed-term, cohort-based programs that include seed investment, connections, mentorship, educational components, and culminate in a public pitch event or demo day to accelerate growth.

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Stripe (company)

Stripe is a technology company.

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SurveyMonkey

SurveyMonkey is an online survey development cloud-based software as a service company, founded in 1999 by Ryan Finley.

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SV Angel

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based angel investment firm, which helps startup companies with business development, financing, M&A and other strategic advice.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch is an American online publisher of technology industry news founded in 2005 by Archimedes Ventures whose partners were Michael Arrington and Keith Teare.

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Techstars

Techstars is an American seed accelerator, founded in Boulder, Colorado in 2006 by David Cohen, Brad Feld, David Brown, and Jared Polis.

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Trevor Blackwell

Trevor Blackwell (born 4 November 1969 in Canada) is a computer programmer, engineer and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley.

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Twitch.tv

Twitch is a live streaming video platform owned by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Venture capital

Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, or both).

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Vi Hart

Victoria Hart (born 1988), commonly known as Vi Hart,, is a self-described "recreational mathemusician" who is well known for creating mathematical videos on YouTube.

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Viaweb

Viaweb was a web-based application that allowed users to build and host their own online stores with little technical expertise using a web browser.

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Watsi

Watsi is a nonprofit healthcare crowdsourcing platform that enables individual donors to directly fund medical care for individuals in developing countries without access to affordable medical care.

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Weebly

Weebly is a platform for e-commerce, websites and integrated marketing for creative entrepreneurs and small business owners.

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Yuri Milner

Yuri Borisovich (Bentsionovich) Milner (Ю́рий Бори́сович Бенцио́нович Ми́льнер; born 11 November 1961) is an Israeli-Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist.

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Zenefits

Zenefits is a company based in the United States that offers cloud-based software as a service to companies for managing their human resources, with a particular focus on helping them with health insurance coverage.

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Zidisha

Zidisha is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that allows people to lend small amounts of money directly to entrepreneurs in developing countries.

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500 Startups

500 Startups is an early-stage venture fund and seed accelerator founded by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai in 2010.

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References

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