YC Winter 2019 Batch Stats

by Y Combinator3/19/2019

We are about to kick off the second day of YC’s 28th Demo Day. In total, 189 companies will present over two days. You can read more about some of the companies here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. And here is TechCrunch’s coverage of Day 1 of YC W19 Demo Day.

Below are stats about the W19 batch.

Total companies that presented at YC W19 Demo Day: 189

YC W19 CATEGORIES:
Aerospace – 2%
Agriculture – 1%
Automotive – 1%
B2B Software and Services – 40%
Blockchain – 2%
Consumer Goods and Services – 13%
Consumer Media – 6%
Education – 3%
Energy and Environment – 2%
Fintech – 8%
Government – 2%
Healthcare – 14%
Industrial – 3%
Real Estate and Construction – 3%

COUNTRIES REPRESENTED IN W19 (40% of the W19 companies were based outside the U.S. before YC, 36 countries are represented): Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Canada
China
Colombia Czech Republic
Ecuador
France
Germany
Greece
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Israel
Italy
Japan
Korea
Malaysia
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Panama
Peru
Russia
Singapore
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Tanzania
UK
Ukraine
Uruguay

UNDERREPRESENTED FOUNDERS:

Female Founders:
24% of W19 companies have a female founder; 13% of W19 founders are female

Black Founders:
8% of W19 companies have a black founder; 6% of W19 founders are black

Latinx Founders:
10% of W19 companies have a Latinx founder; 8% of W19 founders are Latinx

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