Gantto YC Application
Gantto went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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
- Summer 2010
- Industry
- B2BProductivity
- Status
- Inactive
- Launched
- 2012
Founders
Christopher R. CarlsonFounder/CEO- Federico BarbagliFounder
What Gantto does
Gantto was conceived to fill one obvious gap in our weekly management routine. Each week we would collect status information based upon what was really happening inside the organization and then update our project models to reflect and digest the changes. Then we would spend tedious hours manually creating presentations based upon the same underlying project data that we had already updated. After a long search for a good solution we set out to create our own. Gantto is a play on words on gantt chart – the most commonly used visual representation of project schedules. Gantt charts take their name after Henry Gantt, who popularized them in 1910. In reality they were originally conceived by Karol Adamiecki, a Polish economist / engineer who invented them in 1896 and named them harmonograf.
Gantto's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Gantto, Summer 2010 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Gantto
Better Microsoft Project.
We built Gantto to replace the tedious manual work in updating project schedules and presentations each week. It automates status updates and keeps Gantt charts synchronized with real team progress, so managers spend less time on presentations built from the same data they just updated.
We live in San Francisco and would base the company here after YC.
San Francisco is where we live and where our network is strongest. It's the natural place to incubate a B2B productivity tool focused on project management.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Gantto YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Gantto's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Gantto would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Gantto in?
Gantto was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2010 batch.
Who founded Gantto?
Gantto was founded by Christopher R. Carlson, Federico Barbagli.
What does Gantto do?
Better Microsoft Project.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Gantto's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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