Circa YC Application

Summer 2016Active

Circa went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2016 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 2016
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 21
Status: Active
Launched: 2016

Founders

Alex PatriquinFounder/CEO

What Circa does

Circa is the event marketing platform built for demand gen and field marketing teams. We help sales and marketing teams work on events, everywhere and every way their customers gather.

Circa's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Circa, Summer 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Circa

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Event marketing CRM

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 demand generation and field marketing teams plan, execute, and track events where their customers gather. It's tailored specifically to sales and marketing teams managing events across many channels and locations.

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

We live in Boston, MA and Santa Fe, NM, and would keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We split time between Boston and Santa Fe, combining access to tech talent and lower overhead. This setup lets us stay close to customers and our team.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Circa YC application?

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