AlgoViral

AlgoViral YC Application

Summer 2021Active

AlgoViral went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry
B2BMarketing
Team size
5
Status
Active
Launched
2021

Founders

  • Jonathan Baker
    Jonathan BakerFounder
  • Philip Howson
    Philip HowsonFounder

What AlgoViral does

Go viral. Grow fast. We help high-growth startups go viral on autopilot. We run your entire social growth loop end-to-end. We create, publish, and manage organic content at scale, then turn the winners into high-performing ads. We are not a creative agency. We are your growth engine: AI-native, data-driven, built to compound.

AlgoViral's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

AlgoViral, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

AlgoViral

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

We help high-growth startups go viral on autopilot

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

We run your entire social growth loop end-to-end. AlgoViral creates, publishes, and manages organic content at scale, identifies the best performing posts, then turns those winners into targeted ads. It's a fully integrated, AI-native system built to drive viral growth automatically for startups that need to scale fast.

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

We live and work in London, United Kingdom, and plan to keep the company based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

London is where we are based and where our initial team and network are. The local startup ecosystem and access to high-growth startups here fits our go-to-market and hiring plan.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real AlgoViral YC application?

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

What YC batch was AlgoViral in?

AlgoViral was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2021 batch.

Who founded AlgoViral?

AlgoViral was founded by Jonathan Baker, Philip Howson.

What does AlgoViral do?

We help high-growth startups go viral on autopilot

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of AlgoViral's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

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