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Introduction

Rebel’s mission is to invest in the best 0
1% of the 30,000+ tech startups that apply each year to Y Combinator, the #1 accelerator in the world with 80+ unicorns and $600B+ in portfolio company value
The fund’s due diligence and investing decisions are made by a team of accomplished Y Combinator alumni who have founded companies now valued over $85B in aggregate, invested in 200+ startups, and generated top one-percentile portfolio returns
Rebel utilizes a proprietary machine-learning algorithm called Rebel Theorem to help validate and screen potential investments, building a diversified portfolio of top Y Combinator startups that is statistically powered to outperform
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Rebel’s mission is to invest in the best 0.1% of the 30,000+ tech startups that apply each year to Y Combinator, the #1 accelerator in the world with 80+ unicorns and $600B+ in portfolio company value. The fund’s due diligence and investing decisions are made by a team of accomplished Y Combinator alumni who have founded companies now valued over $85B in aggregate, invested in 200+ startups, and generated top one-percentile portfolio returns. Rebel utilizes a proprietary machine-learning algorithm called Rebel Theorem to help validate and screen potential investments, building a diversified portfolio of top Y Combinator startups that is statistically powered to outperform.

REBEL PARTNERS A team of top Y Combinator alumni who have co-founded companies now valued over $85B in aggregate and support Rebel’s due diligence, investment decisions, and portfolio support part-time while running their respective companies
Steve Huffman Reddit YC S05 Daniel Kan Cruise YC W14 Max Mullen Instacart YC S12 Trip Adler Scribd YC S06 Jonathan Hirsch Syapse Non-YC biotech partner Sebastian Mejia Rappi YC W16

A team of top Y Combinator alumni who have co-founded companies now valued over $85B in aggregate and support Rebel’s due diligence, investment decisions, and portfolio support part-time while running their respective companies.

REBEL LEADERSHIP Our Managing Partner is a successful serial entrepreneur turned top-decile fund manager, bringing decades of technology startup operating and investing experience to support our portfolio founders
As a founder, he's built startups backed by the world's top venture capital funds and led companies to successful exits, and as an investor, built venture funds that have seeded technology startups now valued at over $10B in aggregate
Jared Heyman Managing Partner Co-Founder of Infosurv & Intengo (acq LON:NFC), CrowdMed (YC W13), Pioneer Fund & Rebel Fund

Our Managing Partner is a successful serial entrepreneur turned top-decile fund manager, bringing decades of technology startup operating and investing experience to support our portfolio founders. As a founder, he's built startups backed by the world's top venture capital funds and led companies to successful exits, and as an investor, built venture funds that have seeded technology startups now valued at over $10B in aggregate.

Co-Founder of Infosurv & Intengo (acq LON:NFC), CrowdMed (YC W13), Pioneer Fund & Rebel Fund

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On the Y Combinator “premium” (2022 update)

One of the most common complaints I hear amongst Y Combinator startup investors is their sky-high valuations It’s not uncommon for YC startups to raise capital at 2-3 times the valuation of their non-YC

On the life and death of Y Combinator startups

I’ve written much over the years about the incredible success of Y Combinator startups, but as any experienced startup founder or investor knows, there is a dark side to technology innovation… lots of startups just don’t

On YC startup exits

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On 101 Y Combinator unicorns

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