Beluga YC Application

Spring 2025Active

Beluga went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2025 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: Spring 2025
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Fernando YoungFounder
Jack SwisherFounder

What Beluga does

Using our 6+ years of influencer marketing experience to help companies run their influencer campaigns at scale. Fully managed solution to drive real, attributable results to their marketing efforts.

Beluga's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Beluga, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Beluga

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Influencer marketing that converts

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

We built a platform that helps brands run influencer marketing campaigns at scale with measurable results. It's a fully managed service combining our six years of experience to handle influencer sourcing, outreach, and performance tracking. We focus on making campaigns truly attributable to marketing ROI, not just impressions or likes.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company is based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our network and team are. Being close to marketing teams and influencers helps us understand the space and iterate quickly on the product.

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 Beluga YC application?

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