Profile

Paul Buchheit

Location: USA

Paul Buchheit is an entrepreneur and angel investor based in Mountain View, California. Paul is the Co-Founder and serves as a Partner for Y Combinator.

NUMBER

#22

Xs

1 131

Investments

189

Exits

96
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Overview
About Paul Buchheit
Number of Portfolio Companies 19
Location USA

Paul Buchheit is an entrepreneur and angel investor based in Mountain View, California. Paul is the Co-Founder and serves as a Partner for Y Combinator. He also now runs the incubator, recently renamed Y Combinator Core. The original program, now called Y Combinator Core, continues under the leadership of Paul. Prior to that, he was an employee at Google where he was the Creator and Lead Developer of Gmail. He is a programmer and was also the Founder of FriendFeed which later got acquired by Facebook in a private transaction in 2009. With his money, he has invested in over 83 start ups all over the United States.

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Company name
ENTRY ROUND
VALUATION at entry ($M)
Xs
VALUATION 
Seed
$8M
4875
$39 000M
Series A
$15M
820
$12 300M
Seed
$19,4M
515,46
$10 000M
Series A
$15M
246,67
$3 700M
Series A
$5,2M
196,15
$1 020M
Series A
$25M
184
$4 600M
Series A
$11,6M
146,55
$1 700M
Seed
$9M
122,22
$1 100M
Seed
$11M
120
$1 320M
$75,16M
106,44
$8 000M
$17M
105,88
$1 800M
Series A
$20M
75
$1 500M
Series A
$25M
61,2
$1 530M
Series A1
$65M
38,92
$2 530M
Series B
$450M
33,33
$15 000M
Series A
$40M
27
$1 080M
Series F
$7 000M
6,43
$45 000M
Seed
$1 200M
1,08
$1 300M

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