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Y Combinator started with $10k investments, now $120k because inflation. But lately it is becoming a little high, compared to China and so on.

IMO, later stage VCs give money more for ammunition and scale up and down with the economy. It's seed funding that's most affected.

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I remember the $10k investment, and I always found it too low. I doubt they raised to $120k because of inflation (though I agree some part of it may be because of that).

They did cite inflation as the reason it was raised, but likely it was too low.

Well, a raise from $10k to $120k being inflation-based sounds a bit odd as an argument, and I remember this was in pre-Covid times where inflation was close to zero.

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