DemandSphere YC Application

Summer 2010Active

DemandSphere went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2010 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 2010
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 40
Status: Active
Launched: 2012

Founders

Ray GrieselhuberFounder/CEO

What DemandSphere does

DemandSphere enables ecommerce and programmatic SEO teams, both in-house and agency, to drive more traffic from organic search. Our DemandMetrics platform is our core monitoring platform that turns massive amounts of SERP and market data into prioritized insights for growth. Our SERP Intelligence data warehouse accelerates our customer's ability to detect and respond to changes in the search landscape.

DemandSphere's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

DemandSphere, Summer 2010 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

DemandSphere

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

SEO & Content Marketing Intelligence

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

We build DemandMetrics, a platform that processes massive amounts of search engine results page data to deliver actionable insights to ecommerce and SEO teams. It prioritizes opportunities and detects shifts in the search landscape to help users drive more organic traffic.

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

We live in Columbus, Ohio, and the company is based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Columbus is where we have our network and resources; we can build and serve B2B marketing teams effectively from here without relocating.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real DemandSphere YC application?

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