Glider YC Application

Winter 2012Inactive

Glider 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: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2011

Founders

Brandon PatonFounder
Henry LiuFounder
John MarbachFounder

What Glider does

Glider brings clarity and workflow to the deal process. From large, publicly traded companies to small, growing businesses, Glider is helping industry leaders maintain focus on their businesses rather than babysitting contracts. The company is based in beautiful Portland, Oregon, and is backed by True Ventures, TechStars, and a handful of first-class angel investors.

Glider's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Glider

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

We filter distracting emails away from your inbox.

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

We are building an email filtering tool that helps business users focus on important deal-related messages by automatically sorting out distracting emails. Glider integrates into existing inboxes to bring clarity and improve workflow around contract and deal communications, so users spend less time babysitting their inbox and more time closing.

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

We live in Portland, Oregon, and plan to keep the company based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Portland offers a good quality of life and a supportive tech community. We have strong local ties and can build the product effectively from there without needing to relocate immediately.

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 Glider YC application?

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