Giveffect YC Application

Winter 2015Active

Giveffect went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2015
Industry: B2BFinance and Accounting
Status: Active
Launched: 2014

Founders

Allan ShinFounder/CPO
Kevin ShinFounder

What Giveffect does

Giveffect provides a powerful all-in-one software platform exclusively for nonprofits. We offer fundraising, events, online donations, volunteer management, donor management, marketing, constituent relationship management software, and more. We are well positioned for rapid expansion in the coming years and have garnered top industry recognition for our platform.

Giveffect's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Giveffect, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Giveffect

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Fundraising, volunteer, and donor management SaaS

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

We have built an all-in-one platform for nonprofits that handles fundraising, events, online donations, volunteer management, donor management, and marketing. It replaces fragmented tools with one system tailored to nonprofit workflows.

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

We live in New York, NY, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose New York because it's where we live and where many nonprofits are headquartered, giving us direct access to our users and their needs.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Giveffect YC application?

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