Mountain View, California-based Y Combinator, one of the world’s most successful start-up accelerators, has announced that as part of its ongoing venture capital program, it will now invest $80,000 per startup instead of the earlier $150,000. The revamped program will partner with four venture capitalists — Yuri Milner, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and Maverick Capital — who will each invest $20,000 in the program. Investments will be made as convertible notes with no valuation cap and no discount.
Since its inception in 2005, the accelerator has funded over 460 start-ups, including Reddit, Clustrix, Wufoo, Scribd, Disqus, Dropbox, Airbnb and Stripe.
Ernst & Young and Avendus claim the No.2 & No.3 slots Citi , which advised the $2 Billion acquisition of the Indian business of American Tower Corporation by Brookfield, topped the Venture Intelligence League Table for Transaction Advisors to M&A Deals during H1 2024. Ernst & Young stood second advising 8 deals worth $1.5 billion. Avendus followed with 7 deals worth $1.2 billion. KPMG ($1.1 billion across 5 deals) and JM Financial ($900 million across 4 deals) completed the top five. The Venture Intelligence League Tables , the first such initiative exclusively tracking transactions involving India-based companies, are based on the value of PE and M&A transactions advised by Financial and Legal Advisory firms. Among the other larger M&A deals in H1 2024 (other than the ATC-Brookfield deal) , Ernst & Young, KPMG and Deloitte advised $1.1 Billion acquisition in PNC Infratech 12 Road Projects by Highways Infrastructure Tr...