Bizzy YC Application

Winter 2015Acquired

Bizzy went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BRetail
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2014

Founders

Jennifer KesslerFounder/CEO
Chiara McPheeFounder/COO

What Bizzy does

Bizzy is an automated marketing platform designed to boost sales for ecommerce shops. Bizzy is the first tool to centralize a business’ entire marketing portfolio around a single, dynamic set of customer data. As this centralized data updates based on customer behavior and marketing interactions, Bizzy adapts and executes a business' campaigns.

Bizzy's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Bizzy, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Bizzy

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Omni-channel marketing for ecommerce

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

We built Bizzy as an automated marketing platform for ecommerce shops. It centralizes all a business's marketing data in one place and updates dynamically based on customer behavior, so merchants can run coordinated campaigns across multiple channels without managing separate tools.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and Bizzy would continue to be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the center of ecommerce tech and marketing innovation. Being here connects us to key customers and partners in ecommerce.

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 Bizzy YC application?

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