Here is what YC looks like in Winter 2015
Number of startups in the W15 batch: 114
Number of companies funded by YC overall: 842
Total market cap of all YC companies: Over $30B
Total money raised by YC companies: Over $3B
Number of YC companies worth more than $1B: 4
Number of YC companies worth more than $100 million: 32 [1]
Countries represented in the W15 batch
Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, France, India, Israel, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Russia, Singapore, Thailand , Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA [2]
W15 Demographics
Companies with a female founder: 25 (21.93%)
Companies with a Black founder: 9 (7.89%)
Companies with a Hispanic founder: 6 (5.26%)
Founder Age:
> Average: 30.27
> Median: 29
> Oldest: 66
> Youngest: 20
W15 Company Categories
B2B: 20 (17.54%)
Consumer: 20 (17.54%)
Biomedical: 18 (15.78%)
Marketplace: 14 (12.28%)
Enterprise: 13 (11.40%)
Developer Tools: 10 (8.77%)
Fintech: 9 (7.89%)
Hardware: 7 (6.14%)
Non-profit: 3 (2.63%)
Aerospace: 1 (.88%)
[1] Including companies that have been acquired
[2] This list is based on answers to the application question “Where do you live now?” and not on founder nationality.
Thanks to Sketch Deck for help with the graphic.