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June 13, 2012 01:44 am GMT
The Start Fund, the consortium of top investors who are backing all Y Combinator companies, has a new partner: General Catalyst. The storied 12-year-old venture firm has already been busy expanding into Silicon Valley from its Boston home in recent years -- and it has already gotten into around ten YC companies, including top ones like rental marketplace AirBnB and payments company Stripe.So the fund is a natural extension of the firm's effort. Started early last year by DST's Yuri Milner and SV Angel (and later adding Andreessen Horowitz), it has been providing $150,000 convertible notes to every single company that gets accepted into Y Combinator, on top of the $20k that the seed-stage venture firm already puts in.This way, of course, these investors can get equity in any of the many YC startups that turn into big businesses, instead of having to battle it out in later rounds with the countless others who want in.
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General Catalyst Joins SV Angel, Andreessen And Yuri Milner To Invest In The Y Combinator Start Fund
The Start Fund, the consortium of top investors who are backing all Y Combinator companies, has a new partner: General Catalyst. The storied 12-year-old venture firm has already been busy expanding into Silicon Valley from its Boston home in recent years -- and it has already gotten into around ten YC companies, including top ones like rental marketplace AirBnB and payments company Stripe.So the fund is a natural extension of the firm's effort. Started early last year by DST's Yuri Milner and SV Angel (and later adding Andreessen Horowitz), it has been providing $150,000 convertible notes to every single company that gets accepted into Y Combinator, on top of the $20k that the seed-stage venture firm already puts in.This way, of course, these investors can get equity in any of the many YC startups that turn into big businesses, instead of having to battle it out in later rounds with the countless others who want in.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/YXD8jGXFDHM/
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