Launching Orange Collective: Exclusively Investing in Y Combinator Companies

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!

 

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