Embedly YC Application

Winter 2010Acquired

Embedly went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2010
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Sean CreeleyFounder
Arthur GibsonFounder

What Embedly does

Embedly provides a platform and suite of tools to make embedding and previewing links simple. Embedly helps publishers and consumers manage embed codes from more than 100 Websites and APIs, including YouTube, Flickr, Ustream, Picassa, Hulu, Twitpic, Quantcast, and CrunchBase. It automatically convert links from these sources into embedded media on the fly.

Embedly's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Embedly, Winter 2010 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Embedly

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Embedly makes embedding links simple and automatic

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

We built a platform that transforms plain URLs from over 100 sites like YouTube, Flickr, and CrunchBase into embedded media or rich previews automatically. This removes the pain of managing different embed codes and APIs for publishers and product teams.

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

We live in Boston, MA, and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're in Boston because that's where we're already located and working. Remaining here keeps us focused and lets us build without disruption.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Embedly YC application?

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