Blockspring YC Application

Summer 2014Acquired

Blockspring went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2014 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: Summer 2014
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 3
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2014

Founders

Don PinkusFounder/CTO
Jason TokophFounder

What Blockspring does

Blockspring helps small businesses and merchants integrate APIs into their productivity tools without any code - useful for report automation, lead generation, and building dynamic landing pages. It is recognized by Gartner, wired, BI, and Techcrunch for API data management.

Blockspring's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Blockspring

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automate data collection for spreadsheets and productivity tools.

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

We built an API integration platform that lets small businesses and merchants pull live data directly into tools like spreadsheets without writing code. It's used to automate reporting, generate leads, and update landing pages dynamically by connecting APIs to everyday productivity apps.

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

We live in Los Angeles and San Francisco with a remote team, and after YC we'll be based wherever it makes the most sense to grow - likely San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We originally split between LA and SF because of our personal locations, but we plan to consolidate post-YC to be closer to the tech ecosystem and investors in SF.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Blockspring YC application?

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