<story><title>Ask HN: Which successful startups were rejected by YC?</title><text>And if the founders or anyone in the YC jury read this: what was the reason?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ig1</author><text>Companies which have publicly disclosed that were rejected by YC and have since raised &amp;gt;$20m:&lt;p&gt;* Chartboost&lt;p&gt;* Sendgrid&lt;p&gt;* LightSail&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen it claimed that Couchbase should be on this list, but I&amp;#x27;ve never seen a primary source which verifies that they were rejected from YC.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Which successful startups were rejected by YC?</title><text>And if the founders or anyone in the YC jury read this: what was the reason?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rajacombinator</author><text>PG offered a good proxy for this a while back. He said if you look at the top companies from other accelerators, most of them probably applied to YC also.</text></comment>