GiveSpark YC Application

Winter 2012Inactive

GiveSpark went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 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 2012
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 1
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2011

Founders

Schabse Laks
Samuel Rosenblatt

What GiveSpark does

Givespark was a celebrity fundraising platform

GiveSpark's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

GiveSpark, Winter 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

GiveSpark

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Celebrity charity fundraising platform

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

We built GiveSpark as a platform that helps celebrities run fundraising campaigns for charities. It connects public figures with their fans to raise donations effectively, simplifying campaign setup and tracking results.

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

We live in Palo Alto, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live in Palo Alto because it's the center of startup activity and close to key investors and partners who can help us scale GiveSpark effectively.

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 GiveSpark YC application?

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