Beacons YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Beacons went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 batch as a Consumer 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: ConsumerSocial
Team size: 35
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Neal JeanCo-founder, CEO
David ZengFounder
Jesse ZhangFounder

What Beacons does

Helping creators build smarter and more successful businesses with websites, email marketing, ecommerce, and more.

Beacons's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Beacons

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

An AI-powered, all-in-one business platform for content creators

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

We're building Beacons, a platform that helps content creators run their entire business from one place. It combines website building, email marketing, ecommerce, and tools powered by AI to help creators grow and monetize their audiences smarter and faster.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco puts us close to talent, creators, and other startups building in the social and creator economy space. Being here helps us move fast and get direct feedback from users.

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 Beacons YC application?

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