There are two kinds of incubators in Silicon Valley, one is YC, the other is called

Some say there are two kinds of incubators in Silicon Valley, one called Y Combinator, the other.

Although this remark is a bit exaggerated, it also shows that the Y Combinator of Reddit, Dropbox and Airbnb have been hatched in the Silicon Valley. According to their official figures, the company's total funding for Combinator, which graduated from Y, amounted to $3 billion trillion, and the market value added up to more than 30 billion dollars. TechCrunch even calculated that this means that Y Combinator hands the paper wealth to 1 billion dollars.

But the Y Combinator, which has been stuck in Silicon Valley, looks much more conservative than startups, which is active all over the world. But recently, they have also begun to show growing interest in Asia's entrepreneurial tide. Earlier Sam Altman announced that Combinator's startup parochial would come to Asia this year, and he also said in an interview with pingwest that more Asian entrepreneurs would be able to apply for their incubator.

Y Combinator has two incubation projects a year, winter and summer respectively. And now, Y Combinator is about to hold its demo day for the last issue of the 2015 winter. The number of companies selected to participate in this project is unprecedented, reaching 114, so that demo day is divided into two days. But of the 114 companies, a total of 4 are from Asia, including teamnote from Hong Kong, our reported ravens, tech blogs Tech in Asia and another company. Of course, there are some Chinese companies, such as Grubmarket and Smarking, who are studying/working in the United States.

Interestingly, Y Combinator recently sent pingwest a map of their own making, and said it hoped to encourage more Chinese start-ups to apply for YC. What are some interesting numbers? Let's take a look at:

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YC has invested in 842 companies

There are 1667 founders who have invested

The company, which graduated from YC, has financed 3 billion of billions of dollars and is worth more than $30 billion trillion.

Of these, 4 have valued more than $1 billion trillion, and 32 companies have valued more than 100 million dollars (including companies that have been bought).

This YC incubation company has 114, the largest batch ever.

They come from 17 countries, including Argentina, Canada, China, Chile, Colombia, France, Hong Kong, India, Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Ukraine.

25 of these startups have female founders.

The average founder is 30.27 years old, while the youngest founder's record is 20 years and 66 years old.

There are 20 companies in the business-to-business and consumer markets, accounted for 17.54% respectively, and surprisingly, Biomedicine became the third largest vertical field of Y Combinator, with 14 market platform services, 13 in the enterprise market, and then developer Tools (10), Financial technology (9), In addition, there are 6 hardware companies, 3 non-profit organizations, and an aerospace-related start-up company.

In addition to the upcoming demo Day of the recent 2015 winter incubation company, Y Combinator has also opened the application for this summer. If you are interested, you may also apply for a try.