Y Combinator

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2005. It has pioneered a new funding model for early-stage startups by investing a modest amount of capital, typically around $150,000, in a large number of companies twice a year. Over a three-month program, Y Combinator collaborates closely with these startups to prepare them for investor pitches and enhance their business strategies. Each funding cycle concludes with Demo Day, where startups present to an exclusive audience of investors. Y Combinator focuses on various sectors, including business software, education, healthcare, and financial technology, among others. In addition to initial funding, it offers ongoing support through its extensive alumni network. Since its inception, Y Combinator has funded over 630 startups, contributing significantly to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Gustaf Alstromer

Group Partner

Matt Bogrand

Associate, YC Continuity Fund

Timothy Brady

Partner

Craig R. Cannon

Director of Marketing

Adora Cheung

Partner

Nic Dardenne

Principal

Aaron Epstein

Group Partner

Brad Flora

Group Partner

Jared Friedman

Managing Director, Software and Group Partner

Aaron Harris

Partner

Carolynn Levy

Partner

Bradford (Brad) Lightcap

Associate, YC Continuity

Kat Manalac

Managing Partner

Eric Migicovsky

Partner

Kirsty Nathoo

Partner

Verena Prescher

Director of Finance

Geoff Ralston

president

Ali Rowghani

Managing Partner

Arnav Sahu

Principal

Michael Seibel

Managing Director

Harj Taggar

Partner

Past deals in Compliance

StandardCode

Pre Seed Round in 2021
StandardCode makes it easy for companies to comply with child data privacy laws such as COPPA and GDPR-K.

Argus

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Argus is an employee trade compliance platform that creates professional services firms or asset managers, banks, or fintech. Argus lets bankers, consultants, crypto natives, and others trade their liquid assets easily in line with employer compliance restrictions, enabling firms to automate internal compliance, shrinking back-office headcount and minimize risks.

TRM Labs

Series A in 2021
TRM Labs is a regulatory technology startup that aims to streamline compliance in the crypto industry.They believe that blockchain can enable a world where value flows freely by democratizing the creation of property rights, reducing transaction, bargaining, and coordination costs, and enabling new ways to organize human behavior.

Atomized

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Frontline is focused on helping companies meet compliance faster. We currently provide secure virtual machines that are PCI compliant and we are building our platform that will help monitor and remediate compliance issues.

Notabene

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Notabene, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in developing a software as a service (SaaS) platform designed for crypto compliance in the financial industry. Founded in 2020, Notabene enables businesses to adhere to evolving global regulations for cryptocurrency transactions, particularly focusing on the Travel Rule. The company offers a unified API and dashboard that assists compliance officers in managing risks associated with both Travel Rule and non-custodial transactions. By simplifying compliance processes, Notabene enhances transaction confidence for its clients, facilitating increased interaction with a broad network of crypto businesses. This ultimately supports the growth of transaction volumes and fosters business expansion for its customers.

Jumpstart

Seed Round in 2020
Jumpstart is a social e-commerce platform that engages in helping entrepreneurs to manage their ongoing compliance in real-time.

Atomized

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Frontline is focused on helping companies meet compliance faster. We currently provide secure virtual machines that are PCI compliant and we are building our platform that will help monitor and remediate compliance issues.

Klir

Seed Round in 2020
Klir Inc., doing business as Klir, develops an application to manage compliance for all water providers. The company’s platform gathers, monitors and analyses regulatory compliance data, all in one easy-to-use web-based application. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware with location in Toronto, Canada; and Dublin, Ireland.

TRM Labs

Seed Round in 2019
TRM Labs is a regulatory technology startup that aims to streamline compliance in the crypto industry.They believe that blockchain can enable a world where value flows freely by democratizing the creation of property rights, reducing transaction, bargaining, and coordination costs, and enabling new ways to organize human behavior.

TRM Labs

Seed Round in 2019
TRM Labs is a regulatory technology startup that aims to streamline compliance in the crypto industry.They believe that blockchain can enable a world where value flows freely by democratizing the creation of property rights, reducing transaction, bargaining, and coordination costs, and enabling new ways to organize human behavior.

Enzyme

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Enzyme is building software to help life sciences companies with FDA approval and regulatory compliance. Using Enzyme’s software, those companies can avoid spending money on costly consultants which in turn can reduce their compliance costs by up to 50 percent. Since 10 percent of all personnel in biopharma and life sciences companies are related to regulatory issues, it can lower headcount as well. Perhaps most importantly, Enzyme can also make it easier and faster for those companies to bring their products to market.