50% of YCombinator’s Largest Firms are B2B/SaaS

So YCombinator put out a listing of its largest success tales not by valuations (as they’ve achieved prior to now) — however by revenues.

It’s 2023.  It’s not a valuation sport anymore.  It’s about placing actual factors up on the board, and after that, actual earnings.

So when sliced by income, what can we be taught?

That fifty% of the highest YC corporations of all time by income are B2B/SaaS:

Sure, B2C corporations nonetheless usually get extra consideration.  However revenues?  50% of YC’s prime corporations by revenues are B2B, vs. 22% which might be client.

A few of the leaders:

• Algolia (the place I’m proud to have led the first U.S. seed round!  A fantastic convo with CEO Benadette Nixon here)
• Amplitude (come right here CEO Spencer Skates converse at 2023 SaaStr Annual on Sep 6-8!)
• Brex (an awesome deep dive with CEO Henrique Dubugras here)
• Checkr (an awesome deep dive with CEO Daniel Yanisse right here)
• Deel (an awesome deep dive with their Co-founder and CRO Shuo Wang here)
• Dropbox
• GitLab (an awesome deep dive with the CEO here)
• MessageBird
• Mixpanel
• Optimizely
• PagerDuty (an awesome deep dive with CEO Jennifer Tejada here)
• Podium
• Rippling (an awesome deep dive CEO Parker Conrad here)
• Scale.ai
• Stripe (an awesome session with ex-COO Claire Hughes Johnson here)
• Weave (a deep dive on Weave post-IPO here)
• Webflow (an awesome deep dive with CEO Vlad Magdalin here)
• Zapier (an awesome deep dive with CEO Wade Foster here)