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8About Paul Graham
Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. In 2002 he described a simple statistical spam filter that inspired a new generation of filters. He's currently working on a new programming language called Arc, a new book on startups, and is one of the partners in Y Combinator. Paul is the author of On Lisp (Prentice Hall, 1993), ANSI Common Lisp (Prentice Hall, 1995), and Hackers & Painters (O'Reilly, 2004). He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard, and studied painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.
Latest Paul Graham News
Nov 22, 2023
Washington Post: Sources: in 2019, Paul Graham flew from the UK to San Francisco to fire his protégé Sam Altman from YC, worried that Altman put his interests ahead of YC — Before OpenAI, Altman was asked to leave by his mentor at the prominent start-up incubator Y Combinator …
Paul Graham Investments
30 Investments
Paul Graham has made 30 investments. Their latest investment was in Novig as part of their Seed VC - III on August 8, 2023.
Paul Graham Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8/22/2023 | Seed VC - III | Novig | $6.4M | Yes | Alan Rutledge, Arash Ferdowsi, Archon Capital Management, Austen Allred, Bayhouse Capital, CapitalX, Innospark Ventures, Joe Montana, Lux Capital, Palm Drive Capital, Ravi Sheth, Rebel Fund, Soma Capital, TRAC, True Culture Fund, Undisclosed Investors, Unpopular Ventures, and Y Combinator | 2 |
8/1/2023 | Seed VC | Automorphic | Yes | Quarry Ventures, SV Angel, Undisclosed Angel Investors, and Y Combinator | ||
5/9/2022 | Seed VC - II | Manara | $3M | Yes | 9 | |
12/9/2021 | Series B | |||||
11/23/2021 | Series C - III |
Date | 8/22/2023 | 8/1/2023 | 5/9/2022 | 12/9/2021 | 11/23/2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Seed VC - III | Seed VC | Seed VC - II | Series B | Series C - III |
Company | Novig | Automorphic | Manara | ||
Amount | $6.4M | $3M | |||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | Alan Rutledge, Arash Ferdowsi, Archon Capital Management, Austen Allred, Bayhouse Capital, CapitalX, Innospark Ventures, Joe Montana, Lux Capital, Palm Drive Capital, Ravi Sheth, Rebel Fund, Soma Capital, TRAC, True Culture Fund, Undisclosed Investors, Unpopular Ventures, and Y Combinator | Quarry Ventures, SV Angel, Undisclosed Angel Investors, and Y Combinator | |||
Sources | 2 | 9 |
Paul Graham Portfolio Exits
8 Portfolio Exits
Paul Graham has 8 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was TripleByte on March 16, 2023.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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3/16/2023 | Acquired | 5 | |||
Date | 3/16/2023 | ||||
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Sources | 5 |
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