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Want to get your tech startup into Y Combinator, the prestigious accelerator program? Its acceptance rate is below 2%—it’s twice as easy to get into Stanford, MIT or Juilliard. Membership has its perks, though: 150 of the 3,000 companies it has funded since 2005 are worth more than $150 million. More than 60 are unicorns. Below, the five most successful Y Combinator graduates, in terms of valuation.*