Paul Graham is a co-founder of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator in Mountain View, California. He is also a programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. Graham is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first ASP, which in 1998 became Yahoo! Store. In 2002, he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. Graham has obtained a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Cornell University. He earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Applied Sciences with specialization in computer sciences from Harvard University, and studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.
Date | Company Name | Round | Money Raised | Industry | |
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Aug 18, 2020 | Odeko | Series A | $12M | Operating Systems | Detail |
Apr 28, 2020 | Aesthetic | Seed | $3.10M | Blockchain | Detail |
Jun 26, 2018 | Shone | Seed | $4M | Artificial Intelligence | Detail |
Oct 1, 2016 | Replit | Seed | — | Cloud Computing | Detail |
Oct 24, 2015 | Seed | Series Unknown | $5M | Banking | Detail |
Mar 25, 2014 | Clever | Series A | $10.30M | Big Data | Detail |