Geoff Ralston D’82, President, Y Combinator

Keynote Speaker for the 2021 Venture Capital Investment Competition Northeast Regional Virtual Tournament hosted by Dartmouth

Thursday, February 25, 2021

7PM-8PM EST

Register at https://21w-vcic-geoffralston.eventbrite.com

Zoom link will be provided after 2PM on 2/25/2021.

Y Combinator is one of the world’s most prominent accelerators, having incubated startups such as Dropbox, Airbnb, DoorDash, Stripe, and Reddit. Twice a year Y Combinator (YC) invests a small amount of money ($125k) in a large number of startups. They work intensively with the companies for three months to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day, when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience... but YC doesn’t end on Demo Day. YC and the YC alumni network continue to help founders for the life of their company, and beyond. http://www.ycombinator.com/

Geoff Ralston D’82, President, Y Combinator Geoff Ralston is the President of Y Combinator (YC) and has been with YC since 2011. Prior to YC, he built one of the first web mail services, RocketMail which became Yahoo Mail in 1997. While at Yahoo, Geoff worked in engineering and ran a business unit before becoming Chief Product Officer. After Yahoo, he was CEO of Lala, which was acquired in 2009 by Apple. In 2011, he cofounded Imagine K12, the first Ed Tech accelerator, which funded companies like ClassDojo and Remind, and merged with YC in 2016. He has an AB in Computer Science from Dartmouth, an MS in Computer Science from Stanford, and an MBA from INSEAD.

For more information about the Venture Capital Investment Competition Northeast Regional Virtual Tournament hosted by Dartmouth, see below.

https://www.vcic.org/events/2021-events/2021-undergraduate-northeast-dartmouth/

Questions? Email magnuson.student.leadership.board@dartmouth.edu

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