Elucify YC Application

Winter 2016Inactive

Elucify went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2016 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: Winter 2016
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 11
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2015

Founders

Gerald FongFounder/CEO
Mihir DeoFounder/COO
Naveen KrishnamurthiFounder

What Elucify does

Elucify believes that good data is the foundation of effective sales organizations. Their mission is to build the infrastructure that enables salespeople to focus on their passion: selling. Elucify was acquired in 2018 by Circleback.

Elucify's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Elucify, Winter 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Elucify

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

API that cleans CRM contact data automatically

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

We built an API that integrates directly with CRM systems to automatically clean and update contact data. It removes the manual work salespeople usually face maintaining their leads, letting them focus on selling instead of cleaning data.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where most of our early customers and network are. It's the best place to build a B2B SaaS startup focused on sales tools.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Elucify YC application?

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