Companies funded by Y Combinator
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- 1DoorDash· San Francisco, California, United States
- Post-IPO debt
- 80.7k employees
- Founded 2013
- 2Airbnb· San Francisco, California, United States
- Post-IPO debt
- 68.6k employees
- Founded 2007
- 3Instacart· San Francisco, California, United States
- Private equity
- 24.8k employees
- Founded 2012
- 4Meesho· Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- post ipo secondary
- 23.9k employees
- Founded 2015
- 5Aster DM Healthcare· United Arab Emirates
- Series B
- 19.7k employees
- Founded 2023
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