Actiondesk YC Application

Summer 2019Acquired

Actiondesk went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2019
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 4
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2019

Founders

Jonathan ParisotFounder

What Actiondesk does

As easy and flexible as a spreadsheet, as powerful as a BI tool

Actiondesk's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Actiondesk, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Actiondesk

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Access all your live data in one place

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built Actiondesk to pull live data from various sources - databases, CRMs, spreadsheets - and let users work with it like a spreadsheet. It's as flexible as Excel but connected to real-time business data without manual exports or complex BI tools. Customers like product and engineering teams use it to get insights and automate workflows directly with data they trust, without writing code.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in New York City and San Francisco, and plan to base the company in San Francisco after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We split time between NY and SF because we come from different cities; SF is the hub of tech and YC so it's the best place to grow the company post-week one.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Actiondesk YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Actiondesk's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Actiondesk would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.