CircuitLab YC Application

Winter 2013Active

CircuitLab went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2013 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 2013
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2012

Founders

Humberto EvansFounder/Software Engineer
Mike RobbinsFounder

What CircuitLab does

CircuitLab makes it easier for electrical engineers, students, and electronics hobbyists to design, analyze, build, and share electronic circuits.

CircuitLab's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

CircuitLab, Winter 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

CircuitLab

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Online circuit simulator and schematic editor

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

We built an online tool that lets electrical engineers, students, and hobbyists design, analyze, and share electronic circuits through a browser-based schematic editor and circuit simulator. It replaces clunky desktop tools and makes circuit design accessible without complicated installs.

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

We live in Redwood City, CA, and the company would be based there and partially remote after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Redwood City is where we are both located or nearby, making collaboration easy. Remote allows flexibility but we want a stable base near the tech ecosystem.

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 CircuitLab YC application?

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