ClearBrain YC Application
ClearBrain went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 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 2018
- Industry
- B2BMarketing
- Team size
- 10
- Status
- Acquired
- Launched
- 2017
Founders
Bilal MahmoodFounder/CEO
Eric PollmannFounder / CTO
What ClearBrain does
ClearBrain (YC W18) is a startup building the first self-serve AI platform for growth marketing. We help companies automatically predict and retarget users when they are most likely to purchase. Fortune 1000 companies use ClearBrain’s automated machine learning platform to personalize experiences for hundreds of millions of user predictions - as effectively as Uber or Google. We’re led by the founding engineers of Google Ads and Optimizely’s data infrastructure teams, and backed by investors in Dropbox, Optimizely, and AdMob. We’re a deeply technical team who value humility and customer empathy above all. As a group we’re also pretty good at bowling, D&D, and Rubik’s cubes. We are building an advanced analytics platform with the challenge of making it accessible to a smart, capable clientele of growth experts that demands ease of use, utility, high availability and good responsiveness. You’ll join a startup environment where you'll be exposed to a variety of backend, frontend, machine learning frameworks in a fast-moving company!
ClearBrain's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
ClearBrain, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
ClearBrain
Causal Analytics for Growth Teams
We are building the first self-serve AI platform for growth marketing that automatically predicts when users are most likely to purchase and enables companies to retarget them. Our platform lets growth teams personalize user experiences at scale using automated machine learning, on par with systems at Uber and Google.
We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.
San Francisco is where the technical talent and our target users - growth marketing teams - are concentrated. It gives us direct access to early customers and the startup 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real ClearBrain YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from ClearBrain's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like ClearBrain would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was ClearBrain in?
ClearBrain was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2018 batch.
Who founded ClearBrain?
ClearBrain was founded by Bilal Mahmood, Eric Pollmann.
What does ClearBrain do?
Causal Analytics for Growth Teams
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of ClearBrain's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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