It wasn't YC. It was the most commonly featured in the "YC or this new up and coming fund/accelerator" argument, if you can extrapolate from that. I don't feel comfortable saying the name because ultimately they convinced us to pivot, or to say it another way, rejected us and it feels weird and name-droppy to say "yeah, had three talks with this big accelerator" when you got rejected.
Assuming it's the one on the top floor of my office building in MV, I wouldn't call them "large" yet, despite the name -- which is independent of quality or value-add of course. They're also quite new. And KPCB has a huge partnership, a lot of whom are unrelated to tech (cleantech, green, energy, etc.) Anyone who retired a few years ago probably only knows Idealab!, maybe YC, maybe Tech Stars -- anyone from outside of tech probably only knows Idealab! and maybe YC.
(I think that one is also even less well known outside the Bay Area within the US, although fairly well known in the specific foreign markets he goes after, like Mexico, Chile, and Asia. But I would hardly expect someone in Denver, NYC, Austin, etc. to have heard of them, but rather YC and the local Tech Stars franchise.)
