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by jlitalien 3957 days ago
Thank you for applying for Y Combinator Fellowship. We’re sorry to say that your startup was not selected for an interview. We read through more than 6,500 applications, and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview, we had to turn away a huge number of promising groups.

Unfortunately we can't give you individual feedback about your application. This page explains why: http://ycombinator.com/whynot/

We sincerely hope this won't stop you from pursuing your startup. We're not yet sure if we'll continue to do YC Fellowship past this pilot program, but we definitely welcome and encourage you to apply to YC in the future. Having applied to YC Fellowship will in no way count against you, and a surprisingly large number of companies are funded after applying to YC programs more than once.

We're trying to get better at this, but it's certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.