Bluelight YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Bluelight went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Alex DixonFounder
Stewart LamkeFounder

What Bluelight does

Bluelight gives home service contractors the power of real-time data to optimize and scale their business.

Bluelight's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Bluelight, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Bluelight

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Analytics, built for the trades.

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

We built a real-time analytics platform specifically for home service contractors. It collects data from their operations so they can optimize scheduling, track job performance, and understand their business metrics without juggling spreadsheets or multiple tools.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company would be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has deep technical and startup talent, which is crucial for iterating on our product quickly and finding early customers in the home services industry.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Bluelight YC application?

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