Chargehound YC Application

Winter 2014Acquired

Chargehound 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: B2BFinance and Accounting
Team size: 13
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2013

Founders

Dmitri CherniakFounder/CTO

What Chargehound does

Fight chargeback fraud. Save time and money. Chargebacks are tedious to rebut yet costly to ignore. Revenue lost from chargebacks can be won back, but the dispute process is time-consuming and inefficient. With one simple integration, Chargehound automates your entire dispute process. You can respond to all your chargebacks - instantly. Let us do the work - as soon as you receive a dispute, Chargehound will create and submit a comprehensive, customized response on your behalf. Instead of spending hours compiling disputes, you can focus on more impactful goals, like minimizing your chargebacks and maximizing your win rate. Get started for free by making an account at

Chargehound's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Chargehound

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automate your chargeback dispute process.

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

We make a platform that automates the chargeback dispute process for businesses. When a chargeback occurs, our system instantly creates and submits a customized response so merchants can respond quickly without spending hours on tedious paperwork.

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

We live in Oakland, CA, and after YC we'd continue to base the company here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Living and working in Oakland keeps us close to our early customers and the fintech ecosystem we rely on, and we don't need to move to Silicon Valley to build this product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Chargehound YC application?

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