Now, if you are well-versed in the startup business, you must have heard about Y Combinator. Likewise, if you are new, you are wondering, ” What is Y Combinator?”
Y Combinator is an American technology startup accelerator launched in 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingstone, Robert Morris, and Trevor Blackwell. With Y Combinator’s motto being, “Make Something People Want”, the program teaches startup founders how to scale their business to a high growth business amongst other workshops held. The founders receive funding and connections in exchange for a percentage equity of their company. YC has been used to launch over 3000 companies including popular companies such as Reddit, Doordash, Instacart, Airbnb etc.
Taking it a step further, YC has launched a startup dating platform for entrepreneurs, Co-founder Matching. Co-founder Matching serves as a platform for entrepreneurs to meet other entrepreneurs with the goal of creating a startup, so think, like tinder is to dating for love, co-founder matching is to dating for startup. Isn’t that cool?!
To join Co-founder Matching, one would already have to have an account with Y Combinator and then you are moved to the sign-up portal for YC Startup School. Co-founder Matching is an incentive added for participants of the YC Startup School and then there are additional features for participants with an active startup to help their productivity.
The catch is an entrepreneur does not have to have an idea to be given access to Co-founder Matching, you can choose to meet someone who has an idea already. So, Entrepreneurs? Go ye into world and multiply your startups!