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Have you taken any investment yet?

How 5 YC companies answered the "Have you taken any investment yet?" question from the YCombinator Application.

5 answers / 16 words on average
Older variations of this question:
  • List any investments your company has received. Include the name of the investor, the amount invested, the premoney valuation / valuation cap, the type of security sold (convertible notes, safes or stock), and the investment date.

"Have you taken any investment yet?" — 5 answers

Prolific(S19)

Full application

No

InEvent(S19)

Full application
Original question: List any investments your company has received. Include the name of the investor, the amount invested, the premoney valuation / valuation cap, the type of security sold (convertible notes, safes or stock), and the investment date.

bootstrapped

Goodly(S18)

Full application

We're bootstrapping, but have received investment offers.

Simple Habit(W17)

Full application

After launch, I've taken on [redacted] additional investments into the company as a convertible note at a [redacted].

80,000 Hours(S15)

Full application
Original question: List any investments your company has received. Include the name of the investor, the amount invested, the premoney valuation / valuation cap, the type of security sold (convertible notes, safes or stock), and the investment date.

Incorporated in 23 Feb 2012 in the UK. $700,000 of donations since 2012, primarily from 25 individual donors. Of this we’ve spent about $400,000. Donors who have given over $10,000 include: Jaan Tallinn (cofounder of Skype), Allan Gray (founder of Orbis), Luke Ding (former hedge fund manager at Brevan Howard), Tony Purnell (entrepreneur and Professor of Engineering at Cambridge), and three former users.

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