GroupAhead YC Application

Winter 2015Inactive

GroupAhead went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 batch as a Consumer 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: ConsumerSocial
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2014

Founders

Brian GlickFounder/CEO
Julian FrumarFounder/CTO

What GroupAhead does

GroupAhead is a YC-backed company that allows groups to create their own dedicated smartphone apps. The easy-to-use, single-purpose app focuses solely on connecting an organization's members. With a dedicated, specialized app, member involvement and event attendance goes up, and push notifications cut through the noise of email and Facebook.

GroupAhead's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

GroupAhead

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Improve communications with your group's own mobile app.

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

We make a dedicated mobile app platform that lets groups create their own smartphone apps focused solely on connecting their members. Our product helps organizations increase member involvement and event attendance by providing a simple app with push notifications that cut through email and social media noise.

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 here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in San Francisco because that's where we live and where we can stay close to a strong tech community and potential early users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real GroupAhead YC application?

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