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Biggest start up incubator holds BBQ party

Y Combinator BBQ Party at Cafe Neo, Lagos
Y Combinator BBQ Party at Cafe Neo, Lagos
The event held at Cafe Neo, 19b, Adeyemi Lawson Street, Ikoyi on Saturday July 24, 2016.
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Y Combinator, the biggest start up incubator held its BBQ party at Cafe Neo, 19b, Adeyemi Lawson Street, Ikoyi on Saturday July 24, 2016.

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The event featured guests which included both the young and old, held in a serene environment with lots of drinks and chops to go with it as attendees listened to highly rated songs from the disc jockey while they network.

Y Combinator works with startups and their ideas. In 2005, Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Twice a year they invest a small amount of money ($120k) in a large number of startups.

As of 2016, Y Combinator had invested in 940 companies including Dropbox, Airbnb, Coinbase, Stripe, Reddit, Zenefits, BuildZoom, Instacart, Twitch.tv, Machine Zone, Weebly. The combined market capitalization of YC companies was over $65B.

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