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), Guillermo Rauch, Shishir Mehrotra, Fidji Simo, Ben Silbermann
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), Balaji Srinivasan, Bob Lee, Vishal Rao
Perplexity
Series AMar 2023$26M
$1.3B
Co-investors: Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Somesh Dash (IVP), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners), Auren Hoffman (Datavant), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Tobias Lutke, Stanley Druckenmiller, Mattia Astori, Dylan Field, Jeff Bezos, Guillermo Rauch, Peter Sonsini, Balaji Srinivasan, Bob Muglia, Yann LeCun
Character.ai
SeedJan 2023$80K
$150M
Co-investors: Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), 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), Ian Hogarth