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Illuminate Financial vs Y Combinator

Illuminate Financial lists 52 portfolio companies and has joined 15 funding rounds; Y Combinator lists 5,151 companies and has joined 3,388 rounds. Illuminate Financial comes in most often at Series A (54% of its entries), Y Combinator comes in most often at Seed (98% of its entries). 3 companies are on both portfolios, among them Notabene, Reality Defender and Talos.

52Portfolio companies5,151
15Funding rounds joined3,388
4Rounds led2,960
10Rounds, last 12 months579
$20M to $100MTypical round it comes in atunder $1M
0%Sites no longer answering0%
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Illuminate Financial and Y Combinator, head to head
Illuminate FinancialY Combinator
Portfolio companies525,151
Funding rounds joined153,388
Rounds led42,960
Rounds, last 12 months10579
Typical round it comes in at$20M to $100Munder $1M
Sites no longer answering0%0%

Where they come in

share of entries by stage
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed0%98%
Series A54%1%
Series B39%0%
Growth8%1%

Illuminate FinancialY Combinator

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Entry stages of Illuminate Financial and Y Combinator, share of entries
Illuminate FinancialY Combinator
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed0%98%
Series A54%1%
Series B39%0%
Growth8%1%

Themes

share of checked companies
Fintech47%13%
AI & Machine Learning18%26%
Healthcare & Biotech0%11%
Enterprise Software6%10%
Crypto & Web37%0%
Education0%5%

Illuminate FinancialY Combinator

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Themes of Illuminate Financial and Y Combinator, share of checked companies
Illuminate FinancialY Combinator
Fintech47%13%
AI & Machine Learning18%26%
Healthcare & Biotech0%11%
Enterprise Software6%10%
Crypto & Web37%0%
Education0%5%

Companies both back

3

Shared companies are those both firms' own portfolio pages list, each checked against the company's site. The same comparison through the API is POST /v1/overlap, for up to 20 firms. How the data is graded

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GET /v1/firms/ycombinator.com/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/illuminatefinancial.com/coinvestors
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