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.
Press Release: Private Equity - Venture Capital (PE-VC) firms invested over $6.2 Billion (across 205 deals) in Indian companies during the first three months of 2024, shows data from Venture Intelligence , a research service focused on private company financials, transactions, and their valuations. (Note: These figures include Venture Capital type investments, but exclude PE investments in Real Estate). The investment amount represents a 8% fall over the $6.7 Billion (across 242 deals) invested in the same period during 2023 and also down by 6% when compared to the immediate previous quarter (which witnessed $6.6 Billion being invested across 200 deals). Deal volumes in Q1'24 also declined 15% compared to Q1'23 and were up by 3% compared to the immediate previous quarter. Q1’24 witnessed 8 mega deals ($100 M+ rounds) worth $3.5 Billion, compared to 17 such investments (worth $3.6 Billion) in Q1’23 and 15 such deals (worth $4.1 Billion) in the immediate previous quarter....