YC Winter 2020 Batch Stats

by Y Combinator3/16/2020

Today, we’re excited to introduce you to YC’s 30th batch.

To keep the community safe, we’re hosting YC W20 Demo Day online. While the Demo Day website is only accessible to investors, you can see a list of the companies that are presenting on-the-record here.

You can also read about the companies in TechCrunch here, here, here and here.

Below are some stats about the YC Winter 2020 batch:

Total companies presenting: 197

YC W20 CATEGORIES:
Aerospace – 1%
Agriculture – 1%
Automative – 1%
B2B Software and Services – 43%
Consumer Goods and Services – 9%
Consumer Media – 5%
Education – 2%
Energy and Environment – 2%
Fintech – 13%
Healthcare – 15%
Industrial – 2%
Real Estate and Construction – 6%

Countries represented: 32 countries are represented in the W20 batch
Algeria
Argentina
Belarus
Brazil
Cameroon
Canada
Colombia
Cyprus
Egypt
Ethiopia
France
Germany
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Kenya
Malaysia
Mexico
Nigeria
Pakistan
Russia
Singapore
South Korea
Spain
Switzerland
Tanzania
UAE
UK
USA
Vietnam

Founder demographics:
Female founders: 20.9% of the companies have a female founder, 11.3% of the W20 founders are women
Black founders: 8.6% of W20 companies have a Black founder; 7.6% of the W20 founders are Black
Latinx founders: 9.0% of W20 companies have a Latinx founder; 8.9% of the W20 founders are Latinx

Some of the themes we’ve seen in this batch:
– Startups revamping traditional industries
– Housing and sustainability
– Healthcare and biotech
– Applications of AI
– Hardware Financial services, including financing and fintech
– Future of Work, including edtech, recruiting, employee benefits, and productivity tools
– Startups serving businesses, including business management software, tech-enabled services, marketing, and supply chain
– Data and developer tools, including tools for non-technical workers
– Consumer, including parenting tools

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  • Y Combinator

    Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Twice a year we invest a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200). The startups move to Silicon