ALL of the exit values (except 1 or 2) are my personal estimates and educated guesses... nothing more. I'm always happy to revise them with better information!
All of your exit numbers seem crazy high. I'm left wondering if it's just wishful thinking, or if I'm way underestimating how much companies will shell out in talent acquisitions.
One number that I know for sure (it was publicized at the time) is Omnisio for $15 million. At that point it was about six months or so into the life of the company, which seems crazy high to me.
TechStars at least publicizes whether the exits are > or < $2million, which can be a helpful guide...
Interesting that you would call it the most successful, given that the general consensus on tech blogs (whatever that's worth) is that it was a talent acquisition/distress sale. I think the founder's statement came across as an unhappy ending (not what he envisioned, but that could have just been the way I read into it). It was a pretty cool interface for a photo site but unfortunately the most memorable thing I knew about the company was the drama with that teen from techcrunch trying to have the Divvyshot founder buy him a Mac to get favorable coverage on Techcrunch.com
I'm about to start work as a new employee at a YC alumni, hopefully we'll do better!
Well, as an investment, that's somewhere around a 50-100x exit for YC, if their investment in it was roughly along the same lines as the terms they currently offer. And the founders didn't do too badly either, walking away with $millions. I mean, they sold for more than Reddit!
Just computed from the reported $20m exit, and the typical investment sizes / equity proportion that YC typically does. (I have no particular knowledge of whether the $20m figure is accurate or not.)
This spreadsheet has a list of YC companies along with whether or not they are dead or have exited: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1...