Gigster YC Application

Summer 2015Acquired

Gigster 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 51
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2015

Founders

Debo OlaosebikanFounder

What Gigster does

Gigster is democratizing access to software by enabling organizations harness the best teams regardless of where they are in the world. Businesses with access to custom software have thousands of times more leverage than those without. We believe that by democratizing access as well as the ability to build great software we can increase the pace and efficiency of human advancement. Core to our approach is building the best place to work on the internet. We are building the largest network of exceptional engineers, designers, and product managers and making this network available to businesses. We are also using software and insights from thousands of projects to improve the odds of successful outcomes. Gigster is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint, Marc Benioff, Adam D'Angelo, Michael Jordan and others. Gigster has served well over 1000 customers including multiple F100 companies spanning a range of industries.

Gigster's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Gigster

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Build and manage distributed teams

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

We built a platform that lets businesses assemble and manage custom software teams remotely. Our product connects customers to top engineers, designers, and product managers around the globe and uses data from thousands of projects to improve delivery outcomes. Essentially, we make it easy for companies to get high-quality software built without hiring full-time staff or managing freelancers individually.

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 as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the tech talent, investors, and early enterprise customers are concentrated. Being here helps us recruit the right team, raise capital, and build relationships with businesses that need custom software.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Gigster YC application?

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