Campfire YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Campfire went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BFinance and Accounting
Team size: 105
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

John Glasgow

What Campfire does

Campfire is the modern accounting platform for startups and mid-size tech companies. The fastest growing YC companies such as Replit, Posthog, SpeakAI run on Campfire. Our product includes an accounting general ledger that has multi-entity support and advanced financial reporting such as P&L by department and contribution margin by customer. Migrate from legacy accounting software to Campfire for your accounting and financial reporting to automate manual tasks and streamline workflows to unlock financial insights and accelerate the monthly close process.

Campfire's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Campfire, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Campfire

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The AI Native ERP for fast growing startups

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

We built Campfire, an accounting platform designed specifically for startups and mid-size tech companies. It includes a multi-entity general ledger and advanced financial reporting like P&L by department and contribution margin by customer. Our platform automates manual accounting tasks and speeds up month-end closes.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company is based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco puts us close to our customers and hires. Being here helps navigate the startup ecosystem and finance/software intersection.

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 Campfire YC application?

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