Investing Profile

Paul Buchheit

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Managing Partner at Y Combinator

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Current Investing Position

Y Combinator Managing Partner

Investment Range

$150K - $150K

Sweet Spot

$150K

Investments On Record

187

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Paul Buchheit's Investments On Record (175)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Weave	Series AJul 2026$14M	$220M
Co-investors: Joe Montana (Liquid 2 Ventures), Brian Feinstein (Bessemer Venture Partners), Matt Garratt (CRV), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Jared Friedman (Y Combinator), Nimay Mehta (Lead Edge Capital), Joel Dudley (Innovation Endeavors), Christine Aylward (Magnetic Ventures), Ronny Conway (A Capital), Eugene Zhang (Moving Capital), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Blake Modersitzki (Pelion Venture Partners), John Mayfield (Album VC), David Silverman (Robertson Stephens), Geoff Ralston (Y Combinator), Bryan Rosenblatt (Craft Ventures), Daniel Curran (FundersClub), Ed Roman (Hack VC), Dalton Caldwell (Standard Capital), Ronny Conway, Dmitry Dakhnovsky
BuildForever	SeedApr 2026$10M	$10M
Co-investors: Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Ben Silbermann (Pinterest), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Scott Belsky (A24), Fidji Simo, Shishir Mehrotra
Concourse	Series AJan 2026$12M	$12M
Co-investors: Dalton Caldwell (Standard Capital)
Sim	Series ANov 2025$7M	$7.5M
Co-investors: Dalton Caldwell (Standard Capital), Ali Rowghani (Y Combinator), Kulveer Taggar (Angel investor), Chris Howard (Fuel Capital), Paul Graham
SiPhox Health	SeedJul 2023$10M	$33M
Co-investors: Srini Ananth (Intel Capital), Balaji Srinivasan (Andreessen Horowitz), Chris Sklarin (Castor Ventures (an Alumni Ventures Fund)), Vishal Rao (The 401(k) Plan Company), Evan Cheng (Mysten Labs), Bob Lee (MobileCoin)
Perplexity	Series AMar 2023$26M	$1.3B
Co-investors: Talia Goldberg (Bessemer Venture Partners), Shravan Narayen (IVP), Somesh Dash (IVP), Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Balaji Srinivasan (Andreessen Horowitz), Yann LeCun (AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Nat Friedman (Self-employed), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Bob Muglia (Snowflake Ventures), Peter Sonsini (The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. New Incubation Ventures), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), Joshua Müller (T.Capital), Stanley Druckenmiller (Unknown Ventures), Daniel Gross (Various), Dylan Field (Figma, Inc.), Jeff Bezos, Shane Neman, Tobias Lutke, Mattia Astori, Amjad Masad
Character.ai	SeedJan 2023$80K	$150M
Co-investors: Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Nat Friedman (Self-employed), Elad Gil (Think Colorado)
Cityfurnish	Series ANov 2022$3M Series AJun 2019$5M	$8.2M
Co-investors: Steve Chen (Modernist), Kenneth Ballenegger (Oyster Ventures)

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