Fountain YC Application

Summer 2015Active

Fountain went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Team size: 200
Status: Active
Launched: 2015

Founders

Keith RyuFounder/CEO

What Fountain does

Fountain’s all-in-one high volume hiring platform empowers the world’s leading enterprises to find the right people through smart, fast, and seamless recruiting. Candidates can apply anytime, anywhere in minutes, right from their phone. Automated and customizable processes streamline the candidate experience and save time for recruitment teams so they can scale with growing hiring needs. Advanced analytics provide end-to-end process visibility so managers can make swift, data-driven decisions. Throughout the candidate journey, the openly integrated platform enables companies to find, qualify and convert more applicants. Fountain’s global customers hire over 1.2 million workers annually in 78 countries.

Fountain's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Fountain, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Fountain

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

High volume hiring made simple

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

We built an all-in-one platform for high volume hiring that lets companies find, screen, and hire candidates faster. Our product automates and customizes recruiting processes, gives candidates an easy mobile application experience, and provides recruiters actionable analytics to improve decisions at scale.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company is based here with a remote team distributed across the US.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the center for tech talent and hiring innovation. Being here keeps us connected to customers and helps us recruit strong engineers and sales.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Fountain YC application?

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