“show me the proportion of yc startups that go accepter into yc with and without raising any prior funding (i.e. yc being their first investor vs having investros already) give me breakdown year by year”
YC's own batch posts report this metric for four batches across two years — Winter and Summer 2022 (654 funded startups) and Winter and Summer 2023 (511) — not for every year of YC's history. Percentages below weight each batch by its number of funded startups; counts are estimates from YC's rounded figures.
| Batch | Funded startups | Prior funding % | No prior funding % | YC's wording | Source |
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Data: Y Combinator's official “Meet the batch” blog posts for W22, S22, W23 and S23, collected in 2024; 9 source rows (with duplicate URL variants) reduced to 4 unique batches, plus 2 precomputed annual aggregates. Each percentage is the share of funded (accepted) startups in a batch — not applicants — that had or had not raised money before YC; annual shares weight batches by funded count. Counts are estimated from YC's rounded percentages. “YC first investor” means YC's phrase “never raised” or the complement of “raised money before YC”; it does not distinguish equity from every non-dilutive source. YC did not publish this metric for other years, so no other years appear — missing years are unknown, not zero.