Easol YC Application
Easol went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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
- Summer 2018
- Industry
- B2B
- Team size
- 70
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2018
Founders
Ben SimpsonFounder/CEO
Lisa SimpsonFounder/Chief Creative Officer
What Easol does
Easol is the all-in-one platform for managing your entire experience business, on your terms. Sell directly on your own website with smart booking, payment, and marketing tools that all work together, brilliantly. We believe that with the right tools, anyone can turn their passion into an empire. So we made them - and brought them together to work in sync, all in one place. We call it Experience Commerce. It's e-commerce specially designed for selling experiences and especially designed for experience creators.
Easol's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Easol, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Easol
Shopify for experiences
We built Easol as an all-in-one platform that lets businesses selling experiences manage everything from booking and payments to marketing. It's designed so experience creators can sell directly from their own sites with tools that work together. Essentially, we bring e-commerce infrastructure tailored for experiences, not just products.
We are based in London, England; Lisbon, Portugal; and New York, USA. After YC, we'd likely remain distributed but keep London as a main hub.
Our founding team is spread across London, Lisbon, and New York. We focus on markets where experience creators and travel businesses are active. Being distributed also helps us tap into diverse pools of experience providers and customers for our SaaS platform.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Easol YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Easol's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Easol would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Easol in?
Easol was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 batch.
Who founded Easol?
Easol was founded by Ben Simpson, Lisa Simpson.
What does Easol do?
Shopify for experiences
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Easol's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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