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Why and How YC Was Started? So, raising seed funding was always slow, complicated, and a hard job. Founders often relied on informal investments from friends or family, with little to no standardization, leaving them vulnerable to legal and financi

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Crazy part, Y Combinator (YC) has funded over 4,000 companies, collectively valued at approximately $600 billion.

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