I’m happy to share that I’ve started working (part-time) with Orange Collective.
Orange Collective exclusively invests in Y Combinator companies before Demo Day. The team (Jason Freedman, Ryan Bednar, Dave Yen, Omri Barzilay, and Tara Perillo) has founded 5 companies which participated in 5 graduating Y Combinator batches spanning from 2009 to 2017. The team has also collectively angel invested in 200+ Y Combinator companies, including unicorn outcomes like Ironclad, Vanta, Replit, Moonvalley, and Snapdocs. They also have previous institutional VC experience: Jason was a Partner at Peak State Ventures and Tara was a Partner at Initialized.
We have over 150 Y Combinator alumni as actively engaged LPs. They invest in the fund, evaluate each Y Combinator batch, perform due diligence, and help us gain access to hard-to-access opportunities. We also have 75+ non-Y Combinator accredited investors in the fund that want to be closer to Y Combinator and able to benefit from the incredible potential of these founders.
Following our first close, we’ve invested in 4 of the top companies from the recent Y Combinator batch, including companies that have since shown viral growth like Browser-Use and Mastra.ai. Our strategy is to get into the top companies extremely early, when prices are lower. Following our investments, our four portfolio companies raised $34M more in Tier 1 capital at an average 1.5x higher valuation cap. Most investors couldn’t even get allocations.
If you’d like to learn more or see room to collaborate, please reach out!
