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> Going by my memory, when YC started they invested 5K per founder.

It was originally 5k plus 5k per founder. The first time it changed was summer 2011, with the guaranteed additional 150k funding from Yuri Milner and Ron Conway.

source: https://www.newsweek.com/boot-camp-next-tech-billionaires-10...

https://venturebeat.com/2011/01/29/yuri-milner-and-ron-conwa...



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