AdGrok YC Application

Summer 2010Acquired

AdGrok went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2010 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 2010
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Antonio Garcia-MartinezFounder/CEO
Matthew McEachenFounder
Argyrios ZymnisFounder

What AdGrok does

AdGrok allows business owners to automate the process of choosing and bidding on keywords on Google AdWords.

AdGrok's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

AdGrok, Summer 2010 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

AdGrok

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Easy SEM software

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

We built AdGrok to automate the process of choosing and bidding on keywords in Google AdWords. Our product simplifies ad campaigns for business owners who don't want to spend hours figuring out keywords and bids.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and after YC the company would stay based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is central to our market and where we have access to engineering talent and potential users in the startup scene.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real AdGrok YC application?

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