Clickfacts YC Application

Summer 2005Acquired

Clickfacts went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2005 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 2005
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 11
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Greg GurevichFounder
Mikhail GurevichFounder
Mikhail LedvichFounder/Product Architect

What Clickfacts does

ClickFacts is a Malware Software Solutions company for buyers and sellers of online media. Its automated plug and play malware discovery solution tests online ads (SWFs & 3rd Party Ad Tags) and web pages within websites to ensure they do not distribute malware onto usersâ€™ computers (which can lead to identity theft). Its moderation software solution monitors websites to ensure the ads running on them are free of inappropriate content (e.g., nudity, racism), and its Ad Buddy product provides to advertisers real-time continuous monitoring and a complete history of where their ads have run. ClickFacts Inc. was founded in 2005 by Mikhail Ledvich, Mikhail Gurevich, and Greg Gurevich in Boston Mass, with initial funding by YCombinator. It is now based in San Francisco, California.

Clickfacts's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Clickfacts, Summer 2005 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Clickfacts

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Malware and ad content monitoring software

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

We build automated tools that test and monitor online ads and websites for malware and inappropriate content. Our malware discovery solution tests ads and web pages for harmful software that can infect users' computers. We also provide moderation software that scans ads for content like nudity or racism, and our Ad Buddy product lets advertisers track where their ads run in real time and historically.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We moved from Boston to San Francisco to be closer to the tech ecosystem and potential customers in online media security.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Clickfacts YC application?

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