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| 2011 || January || || {{w|Yuri Milner}} starts automatically backing all Y Combinator companies, with each start-up receiving US$150,000 from Milner and investor {{w|Ron Conway}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Arrington |first1=Michael |title=Start Fund: Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer EVERY New Y Combinator Startup $150k |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venture-milner-ycombinator/facebook-backer-yuri-milner-exits-automatic-y-combinator-investments-idUSBRE9BF1GA20131216 |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Hacker News |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2154706 |website=news.ycombinator.com |accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref>
 
| 2011 || January || || {{w|Yuri Milner}} starts automatically backing all Y Combinator companies, with each start-up receiving US$150,000 from Milner and investor {{w|Ron Conway}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Arrington |first1=Michael |title=Start Fund: Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer EVERY New Y Combinator Startup $150k |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venture-milner-ycombinator/facebook-backer-yuri-milner-exits-automatic-y-combinator-investments-idUSBRE9BF1GA20131216 |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Hacker News |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2154706 |website=news.ycombinator.com |accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2013 || September || || {{w|Paul Graham}} announces Y Combinator would fund nonprofit organizations accepted into its program after having tested the concept with {{w|Watsi}} (while continuing to fund mostly for-profit startups).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/09/06/following-watsi-y-combinator-to-now-fund-non-profit-startups-in-the-form-of-a-charitable-donation/|title=Y Combinator To Fund Non-Profit Startups With Charitable Donations|author=Ken Yeung|date=6 September 2013|work=The Next Web|accessdate=18 June 2019}}</ref>
 
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Revision as of 12:00, 18 June 2019

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2005 March 1 Y combinator is founded by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell and Robert Tappan Morris.[1].[2]
2009 January Y Combinator announces that the Cambridge program would be closed and all future programs would take place in Silicon Valley.[3]
2011 January Yuri Milner starts automatically backing all Y Combinator companies, with each start-up receiving US$150,000 from Milner and investor Ron Conway.[4][5]
2013 September Paul Graham announces Y Combinator would fund nonprofit organizations accepted into its program after having tested the concept with Watsi (while continuing to fund mostly for-profit startups).[6]

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  1. Graham, Paul (March 15, 2012). "How Y Combinator Started". Y Combinator. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
  2. "Y Combinator". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
  3. Graham, Paul (January 2009). "California Year-Round". Y Combinator. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
  4. Arrington, Michael. "Start Fund: Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer EVERY New Y Combinator Startup $150k". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
  5. "Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Retrieved 18 June 2019. 
  6. Ken Yeung (6 September 2013). "Y Combinator To Fund Non-Profit Startups With Charitable Donations". The Next Web. Retrieved 18 June 2019.