Blok YC Application

Winter 2020Inactive

Blok went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 batch as a Consumer 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 2020
Industry: ConsumerHome and Personal
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2020

Founders

Sahana RajasekarFounder

What Blok does

Fitness professionals have large, loyal followings, but don’t have the tools to build scalable businesses. Blok makes it easy for fitness professionals to teach live classes, sell content, get paid for differentiated services, partner with brands, reward their community, and build a unique brand online."Fitness entrepreneurs" will continue to unbundle from brands and will be armed with Blok's digital tools to monetize their audiences directly.

Blok's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Blok, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Blok

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Platform for fitness pros to build businesses

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

We're building a platform that helps fitness instructors teach live classes, sell content, get paid for unique services, partner with brands, and reward their communities. It's designed so fitness professionals can break away from big brands and monetize their followers directly through Blok's tools.

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

We live in San Francisco and remotely, and plan to base the company in San Francisco after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the talent, network, and proximity to both tech and fitness communities we need to grow Blok. Remote work lets us tap into more developers and early users beyond the city.

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 Blok YC application?

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