[venantius]

> Afaik, YC is the only seed funder-startup accelerator in the world, among thousands of other ones, that has given birth to companies worth $1 billion ore more.

Seedcamp (London) has backed 3 unicorns: Revolut [$1.7B], UiPath [$3B], and TransferWise [$1.6B], and that's just a venture firm I know off the top of my head. While these days they're closer to a first-round fund (with a similar economic deal to YC) than an accelerator, most of those were from back when they were operating in a proper accelerator model.

I suspect there are probably a few other accelerators around the world that have unicorns in their portfolio - you just don't hear about them because they're not local.

[atestu]

Techstars is another one (Sendgrid, Marketo, Pillpack)

[btrautsc]

I am fairly sure Marketo was not part of Techstars ?

[atestu]

You're right I was mistaken. Not able to edit my comment.

[mikemotherwell]

Twilio.