This month, YC will be participating in Quora’s most recent investment round and Quora will be joining this summer’s YC batch.  This is a new experiment for us; we’ve funded later-stage companies before, but none close to Quora’s stage.  Our hope is that both the company and the YC community will get a lot of value out of this.

We’re not sure if it’s something we’ll do again; some of our experiments have worked and some of them haven’t.  But Adam D’Angelo is awesome, and we’re big Quora fans, so we’re very excited to welcome Quora to the YC community.

Since it seems out of character for us, we thought we should say something about it.  Also, we won’t count Quora when we periodically announce stats on the YC portfolio.  Although they’re participating in the batch like any other company, they’re already so far along it doesn’t seem fair to include them.