Echodio YC Application

Winter 2009Acquired

Echodio went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2009 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: Winter 2009
Industry: ConsumerContent
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Cormac DriverFounder
Vincent GlennonFounder

What Echodio does

Echodio is the easiest way to sync your music library across players, keep your valuable collection safe, and stream to your media center.

Echodio's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Echodio, Winter 2009 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Echodio

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Sync and stream your music across devices

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

We are building a product that syncs your entire music library across all your devices and allows streaming to your media center. It keeps your collection safe and accessible without manual transfers or compatibility issues.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we both live and where the center of tech and early adopters for consumer music tools is, making it the natural place for our startup.

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.

See full application

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Echodio YC application?

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