Front YC Application

Summer 2014Active

Front went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2014 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 2014
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 385
Status: Active
Launched: 2014

Founders

Mathilde CollinFounder/CEO
Laurent PerrinFounder/CTO

What Front does

Front powers the heart of business - the meaningful connections between teams and customers that lead to lasting relationships. Bringing email and apps together in a collaborative customer communication platform, Front drives business impact by scaling the natural conversations that create customers for life. More than 8,000 businesses are using Front today to cultivate personalized customer relationships at scale and transform their work into impact. With $204 in funding, Front is backed by leading venture capital firms including Sequoia Capital, Salesforce Ventures and Battery Ventures, as well as independent investors including top executives from PagerDuty, Atlassian, Okta, Qualtrics, and Zoom.

Front's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Front, Summer 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Front

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Customer communications hub

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

We've built a collaborative platform that brings email and other messaging apps into one shared inbox for teams. It lets customer support, sales, and operations handle all their communications in one place, making it easier to respond quickly and keep track of conversations that build real relationships.

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 there after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the customers are for the kind of B2B teams we serve. It's also where we can hire the talent we need and stay close to investors and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Front YC application?

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