BeatDeck YC Application

Winter 2013Inactive

BeatDeck went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2013 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: Winter 2013
Industry: B2BRetail
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Josh MangelFounder

What BeatDeck does

Beatdeck is a big data music analytics platform. It is used to evaluate artist's KPM, analyze social signals, and provide a clean extensive dashboard into the music industry. Beatdeck was founded in January 2013 at Y Combinator in Mountain View, CA by Josh Mangel and Avi Zolty.

BeatDeck's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

BeatDeck, Winter 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

BeatDeck

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Music, Metrics... Meritocracy.

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

We built a music analytics platform that helps track key performance metrics for artists, analyze social signals around their music, and present it in a clear, detailed dashboard. The goal is to give music industry professionals a data-driven way to evaluate and discover talent.

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

We live and work in Atlanta, GA, and the company would remain based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose to stay in Atlanta because that's where the team is located and where the music scene that we focus on is active. It lets us stay close to our real users and market.

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 BeatDeck YC application?

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