GazeHawk YC Application

Summer 2010Acquired

GazeHawk 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Brian KrauszFounder
Joe GershensonFounder

What GazeHawk does

GazeHawk provides low-cost eye tracking technology for use in usability studies and ad evaluation. Our proprietary technology allows us to use ordinary webcams to run studies. This enables in-home eye tracking, as well as fast, affordable large-scale studies.

GazeHawk's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

GazeHawk, Summer 2010 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

GazeHawk

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Eyetracking using webcams

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

We built GazeHawk, a technology that lets companies run eye tracking studies using ordinary webcams instead of specialized hardware. This makes usability tests and ad evaluations easier and cheaper by enabling participants to do them from home, allowing quick and large-scale data collection.

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

We live in Mountain View, CA, and after YC the company will continue to be based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're already located in Mountain View where a lot of our users and potential partners are based. Staying here keeps us close to key customers and experienced engineers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real GazeHawk YC application?

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