Boostable YC Application

Winter 2014Acquired

Boostable went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2014
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 11
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2013

Founders

Selcuk AtliFounder/CEO
Alex ChangFounder/CTO

What Boostable does

Boostable makes advertising easy for sellers and brands on marketplaces. We grow marketplaces by helping their sellers advertise their listings and gather insights. Boostable is a YCombinator company based in San Francisco and funded by SVAngel, 500 Startups and others.

Boostable's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Boostable, Winter 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Boostable

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Advertising tools for marketplace sellers

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

We make an advertising platform tailored for sellers and brands on marketplaces. Our product simplifies running ads on platforms like eBay or Amazon, helps sellers create campaigns efficiently, and provides insights about how their ads perform, so sellers can grow their listings and sales.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we both live and where the marketplace and startup ecosystem for our product lives. YC is here, so we want to stay local to maintain those connections and resources.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Boostable YC application?

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