Y Combinator (YC)

Activity from announced rounds

Activity in this selectionGermany

Y Combinator funds early-stage startups through a three-month accelerator in San Francisco, with four batches a year and a standard $500,000 investment for accepted companies.

The investment consists of $125,000 for 7% of the company and $375,000 on an uncapped SAFE with a most-favoured-nation provision. The second SAFE adds to YC’s ownership when it converts, so the full $500,000 is not exchanged for a fixed 7% stake.

During the batch, founders work with YC partners in individual and group office hours, build toward Demo Day and use the alumni community for feedback, hiring and introductions. Companies can apply before launch; YC also accepts businesses that already have users and revenue.

Sources
Rounds participated in
4
Confirmed lead rounds
0
3 roles undisclosed
New companies
4
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$54.2M
4 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Seed3
Series A1

By primary sector

AI2
Enterprise software1
Fintech1

By country

Germany4

Rounds

4 in this selection
Zeit AI

ZeitMind connects mid-sized companies' ERP, CRM, HR and other systems, prepares their data and turns plain-language business questions into traceable reports, dashboards and applications.

€5MSeed
Participant
telli

AI startup automating customer-facing operations with AI agents

$15MSeed
Role not disclosed
Finto

Builds AI agents for autonomous accounting tasks

$3.4MSeed
Role not disclosed
Lio

Provides a virtual, agentic procurement department for enterprise companies

$30MSeries A
Role not disclosed