Investing Profile

Paul Buchheit

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Managing Partner at Y Combinator
ycombinator.com/people/Mountain View, California
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Current Investing Position
Y Combinator Managing Partner
Investment Range
$150K - $150K
Sweet Spot
$150K
Investments On Record
184

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Paul Buchheit's Investments On Record (172)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
BuildForever
SeedApr 2026$10M
$10M
Co-investors: Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Scott Belsky (A24), 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)
SiPhox Health
SeedJul 2023$10M
$33M
Co-investors: Srini Ananth (Intel Capital), Chris Sklarin (Alumni Ventures ), Evan Cheng (Mysten Labs), Bob Lee, Balaji Srinivasan
Perplexity
Series AMar 2023$26M
$1.3B
Co-investors: Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Somesh Dash (IVP), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners), Auren Hoffman (Datavant), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Peter Sonsini, Balaji Srinivasan, Jeff Bezos, Mattia Astori, Dylan Field
Character.ai
SeedJan 2023$80K
$150M
Co-investors: Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Elad Gil (Think Colorado)
Cityfurnish
Series ANov 2022$3M
Series AJun 2019$5M
$8.2M
Co-investors: Kenneth Ballenegger (Oyster Ventures), Steve Chen
Let’s Do This
Series BJun 2022$60M
SeedSep 2019$5M
$81M
Co-investors: Pete Flint (NFX), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Yuri Sagalov (10100), Serena Williams (Serena Ventures), Christian Leybold (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Jeff Fluhr (Craft Ventures)