As Scott Duke Harris said in San Jose Mercury News, Y Combinator philosophy was the inspiration for Seedcamp and others like TechStars, LaunchBox Digital, Dreamit Ventures, Shotput Ventures and many others.
- 7 July (Tu) Online application opens
- 23 Aug (Su) - 23:59 GMTOnline application closes
- 2 Sep (W) Short-listed candidates notified
- 9 Sep (W) Short-list interview day, London
- 10 Sep (Th) 20 finalists notified
- 21-25 Sep (M-F) Seedcamp Week, London
- If you want to apply, please submit your application online by 10 pm PST on October 26, 2009. Groups that submit early have an advantage because we have more time to read their applications.
- On November 5, we'll invite the groups that seem most promising to meet us in Mountain View on the weekend of November 20-22. We'll reimburse up to $600 per group for travel expenses.
- We decide who to fund that weekend. Yes decisions will include the amount we'll invest and the percent of the company we'd want for it.
- If we invest in you, your group is expected to move to the Bay Area for January through March 2010. (You can of course leave afterward if you want, but it's a good place for a startup to be.)(...)
