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Norwest vs Y Combinator

Norwest lists 80 portfolio companies and has joined 57 funding rounds; Y Combinator lists 5,150 companies and has joined 3,388 rounds. Norwest comes in most often at Series A (34% of its entries), Y Combinator comes in most often at Seed (98% of its entries). 3 companies are on both portfolios, among them Coval AI, raven.io and Vitalize.

80Portfolio companies5,150
57Funding rounds joined3,388
30Rounds led2,960
32Rounds, last 12 months579
$20M to $100MTypical round it comes in atunder $1M
0%Sites no longer answering0%
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Norwest and Y Combinator, head to head
NorwestY Combinator
Portfolio companies805,150
Funding rounds joined573,388
Rounds led302,960
Rounds, last 12 months32579
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%
Seed9%98%
Series A34%1%
Series B28%0%
Growth28%1%

NorwestY Combinator

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Entry stages of Norwest and Y Combinator, share of entries
NorwestY Combinator
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed9%98%
Series A34%1%
Series B28%0%
Growth28%1%

Themes

share of checked companies
AI & Machine Learning29%26%
Healthcare & Biotech16%11%
Fintech10%13%
Cybersecurity13%5%
Enterprise Software10%10%
Education0%5%

NorwestY Combinator

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Themes of Norwest and Y Combinator, share of checked companies
NorwestY Combinator
AI & Machine Learning29%26%
Healthcare & Biotech16%11%
Fintech10%13%
Cybersecurity13%5%
Enterprise Software10%10%
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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$ curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/norwest.com/portfolio

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