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Outlier Ventures vs Y Combinator

Outlier Ventures lists 170 portfolio companies and has joined 3 funding rounds; Y Combinator lists 5,152 companies and has joined 3,388 rounds. Outlier Ventures comes in most often at Seed (33% of its entries), Y Combinator comes in most often at Seed (98% of its entries). 4 companies are on both portfolios, among them Spark, Uplink and Edge.

170Portfolio companies5,152
3Funding rounds joined3,388
1Rounds led2,960
1Rounds, last 12 months579
$1M to $5MTypical round it comes in atunder $1M
0%Sites no longer answering0%
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Outlier Ventures and Y Combinator, head to head
Outlier VenturesY Combinator
Portfolio companies1705,152
Funding rounds joined33,388
Rounds led12,960
Rounds, last 12 months1579
Typical round it comes in at$1M to $5Munder $1M
Sites no longer answering0%0%

Where they come in

share of entries by stage
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed33%98%
Series A33%1%
Series B0%0%
Growth33%1%

Outlier VenturesY Combinator

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Entry stages of Outlier Ventures and Y Combinator, share of entries
Outlier VenturesY Combinator
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed33%98%
Series A33%1%
Series B0%0%
Growth33%1%

Themes

share of checked companies
Fintech31%13%
AI & Machine Learning18%26%
Healthcare & Biotech4%11%
Enterprise Software7%10%
Cybersecurity8%5%
E-commerce & Marketplaces7%5%

Outlier VenturesY Combinator

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Themes of Outlier Ventures and Y Combinator, share of checked companies
Outlier VenturesY Combinator
Fintech31%13%
AI & Machine Learning18%26%
Healthcare & Biotech4%11%
Enterprise Software7%10%
Cybersecurity8%5%
E-commerce & Marketplaces7%5%

Companies both back

4

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/outlierventures.io/coinvestors
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