Does Ycombinator welcome projects that are similar to alumnis?
3rd February 2014
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Y Combinator has funded companies that are similar to alumni in the past. Two examples: they funded dotCloud and Parse, both platform-as-a-service startups, despite having previously funded Heroku.
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