GitPrime YC Application

Winter 2016Acquired

GitPrime went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2016 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: Winter 2016
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 110
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2015

Founders

Travis KimmelFounder/CEO
Ben ThompsonFounder/Chief Customer Officer

What GitPrime does

Acquired by Pluralsight in May 2019

GitPrime's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

GitPrime, Winter 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

GitPrime

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Visibility and analytics for software development leaders

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

We build a SaaS platform that analyzes engineering teams' Git data to provide leaders clear metrics on productivity, code quality, and process. Our product surfaces quantitative insights from repositories so managers can make better decisions about their software orgs.

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

We live in Durango, CO, and the company is currently based there. After YC, we'd continue remote but would spend time in the Bay Area while attending YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose Durango because it's where we live and where we can focus without distractions. We'll leverage YC's network to expand beyond our location after the program.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real GitPrime YC application?

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