[maram]

>> doesn’t YC strongly encourage investors, to the point of punishing those who violate, to wait until Demo Day? That way they get to build good market conditions for raising.

I’m not sure what’s your source because the first paragraph contradicts what you are saying “Over the last few days, a large number of investors have accelerated their outreach to our current batch of founders. They are moving quickly to make investment decisions, and we’re going to match their pace and accelerate our schedule by one week. YC W20 online Demo Day will now be on March 16.”

[dang]

It's discouraged but people do it anyway. It's in YC's interest to help all the startups in the batch; presumably they decided this was the best way.

(I have no inside info; in fact I just found out about this from the HN submission.)

[maram]

Thanks