Billforward YC Application

Summer 2014Inactive

Billforward went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2014 batch as a Fintech 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 2014
Industry: FintechPayments
Team size: 8
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2014

Founders

Ian SaundersFounder/CEO
Mark ParryFounder
Aubone TennantFounder/Chief Growth Officer

What Billforward does

San Francisco-based BillForward a YCombinator company is comprised of talented and passionate folks who are excited by the challenges and opportunities of subscription billing. We offer a flexible and innovative billing platform, which gives any type of recurring-payment based businesses the ability to bill customers for sophisticated products and carry out in-depth revenue analysis. Launched in Jan 2013 the platform has already gained great traction in the Telecoms, SaaS, Product as Service and Platform as a Service industries, where product managers and CFO’s have realized that the ability to change their offering in hours, rather than weeks, can give them an edge on the competition.

Billforward's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Billforward, Summer 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Billforward

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Subscription billing and analytics platform

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

We built Billforward to handle subscription billing, rate plan management, and revenue analytics. Our platform lets companies with recurring payments quickly change their offerings and get detailed insights into their revenue. It serves sectors like Telecoms, SaaS, Product as Service, and Platform as a Service.

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 after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are in San Francisco because it's the center of tech and startups; being here puts us close to customers and investors relevant to our fintech product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Billforward YC application?

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