Official Y Combinator Safe Financing Documents
Here's Y Combinator's official website for safes (simple agreement for future equity) and other templates, such as term sheets and sales agreements. It contains YC's latest safe version, post-money safe v1.1.
To help a growing number of YC companies based outside of the U.S. (50% of the W21 batch), YC revised the most commonly used "Valuation Cap, no Discount” post-money safe and optional side letter for companies formed in Canada, the Caymans and Singapore in March 2021.
Previous safe versions, including the pre-money safe, are still widely used. You can download all unmodified official YC safe template versions here.
Safes can be issued, converted and managed in Captable.io's Ownership > Convertible Securities view.
Post-money safes
- Valuation Cap, no Discount (most commonly used)
- Discount, no Valuation Cap
- Valuation Cap and Discount
- MFN, no Valuation Cap, no Discount
- Pro Rata Side Letter
- Safe Primer (Post-Money Safe User Guide)
Pre-money safes
- Valuation Cap, no Discount (most commonly used)
- Discount, no Valuation Cap
- Valuation Cap and Discount
- MFN, no Valuation Cap, no Discount
- Safe Primer (Pre-Money Safe User Guide)
Beyond these standard safes versions, YCVC funds also invests via a special YCVC safe. If this is applicable to your YC batch, you can find this template on Bookface or by contacting YC.