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Premise vs Y Combinator

Premise lists 16 portfolio companies and has joined 0 funding rounds; Y Combinator lists 5,151 companies and has joined 3,388 rounds. Y Combinator comes in most often at Seed (98% of its entries). 2 companies are on both portfolios, among them Honeylove and Willow.

16Portfolio companies5,151
0Funding rounds joined3,388
0Rounds led2,960
0Rounds, last 12 months579
n/aTypical round it comes in atunder $1M
0%Sites no longer answering0%
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Premise and Y Combinator, head to head
PremiseY Combinator
Portfolio companies165,151
Funding rounds joined03,388
Rounds led02,960
Rounds, last 12 months0579
Typical round it comes in atn/aunder $1M
Sites no longer answering0%0%

Where they come in

share of entries by stage
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed0%98%
Series A0%1%
Series B0%0%
Growth0%1%

PremiseY Combinator

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Entry stages of Premise and Y Combinator, share of entries
PremiseY Combinator
Pre-seed0%0%
Seed0%98%
Series A0%1%
Series B0%0%
Growth0%1%

Themes

share of checked companies
AI & Machine Learning18%26%
Enterprise Software18%10%
Fintech18%13%
Healthcare & Biotech7%11%
Consumer11%0%
Education0%5%

PremiseY Combinator

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Themes of Premise and Y Combinator, share of checked companies
PremiseY Combinator
AI & Machine Learning18%26%
Enterprise Software18%10%
Fintech18%13%
Healthcare & Biotech7%11%
Consumer11%0%
Education0%5%

Companies both back

2

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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Compare Premise and Y Combinator as data

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VCinfo API
$ curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/premise.vc/portfolio

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GET /v1/firms/ycombinator.com/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/premise.vc/coinvestors
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