Coub YC Application

Summer 2016Inactive

Coub went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2016 batch as a Consumer 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: ConsumerSocial
Team size: 11
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2016

Founders

Igor GladkoborodovFounder/Senior Software Engineer
Anton GladkoborodovFounder

What Coub does

Coub is a short looped video service. They are easy to create online and can be featured with soundtrack. The resulting videos are highly viral, thats why Coub is a fast growing. It has already more than 51M unique visitors per month.

Coub's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Coub

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

YouTube for video loops

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

We built a platform that lets users create short looped videos with soundtracks using any video from YouTube. Our product enables easy, viral video looping that can be shared on social media and easily created online. This is a new way to enjoy and reimagine existing videos as loops rather than long playback.

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

We live in Moscow, Russia, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in Moscow where we started the company. It's where our team is and where we understand our users and content creation trends best.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Coub YC application?

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