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Leaders Fund vs Y Combinator

Leaders Fund lists 27 portfolio companies and has joined 4 funding rounds; Y Combinator lists 5,151 companies and has joined 3,388 rounds. Leaders Fund comes in most often at Series A (50% of its entries), Y Combinator comes in most often at Seed (98% of its entries). 3 companies are on both portfolios, among them www.optimizely.com/products/welcome/, Vellum and mantle.

27Portfolio companies5,151
4Funding rounds joined3,388
1Rounds led2,960
3Rounds, last 12 months579
$20M to $100MTypical round it comes in atunder $1M
0%Sites no longer answering0%
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Leaders Fund and Y Combinator, head to head
Leaders FundY Combinator
Portfolio companies275,151
Funding rounds joined43,388
Rounds led12,960
Rounds, last 12 months3579
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%
Seed25%98%
Series A50%1%
Series B0%0%
Growth25%1%

Leaders FundY Combinator

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Entry stages of Leaders Fund and Y Combinator, share of entries
Leaders FundY Combinator
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed25%98%
Series A50%1%
Series B0%0%
Growth25%1%

Themes

share of checked companies
AI & Machine Learning23%26%
Fintech9%13%
Cybersecurity11%5%
Space & Defense11%5%
Healthcare & Biotech0%11%
Enterprise Software9%10%

Leaders FundY Combinator

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Themes of Leaders Fund and Y Combinator, share of checked companies
Leaders FundY Combinator
AI & Machine Learning23%26%
Fintech9%13%
Cybersecurity11%5%
Space & Defense11%5%
Healthcare & Biotech0%11%
Enterprise Software9%10%

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/leaders.vc/coinvestors
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