Freshplum YC Application

Summer 2011Acquired

Freshplum went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2011 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 2011
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 8
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Sam OdioFounder/CEO
Nick AlexanderFounder/CTO

What Freshplum does

Freshplum's goal is to bring the decision-making power of data science to companies who sell goods and services electronically.

Freshplum's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Freshplum, Summer 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Freshplum

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Analytics with action

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

We build an analytics platform that helps companies selling goods and services online use data science to make better decisions. Our product integrates their sales data and provides actionable insights rather than just reports, making data science accessible to businesses without large analytics teams.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and the company is based here as well. After YC, we would remain in San Francisco to stay close to our user base and the tech ecosystem.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in San Francisco because it positions us near our customers - online sellers - and is a hub for talent and business relationships important to building analytics products.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Freshplum YC application?

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