Herald YC Application

Winter 2019Inactive

Herald went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2BOffice Management
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2018

Founders

Nilkanth PatelFounder
Jay PatelFounder

What Herald does

Herald helps product and customer teams work together to grow revenue by painting a full picture of user problems. We start by providing the best experience for capturing customer feedback from the most relevant apps: Intercom, Front, Email, Slack, and more. Then, Herald's robust analytical engine helps you rigorously qualify and quantify customer feedback according to your business goals. Herald molds to the way your team works: it can be used exclusively as an internal tool, in semi-private mode to share a history of their feedback with specific customers, or publicly by publishing a product roadmap and changelog.

Herald's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Herald, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Herald

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

A collaborative repository for user feedback

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

We build Herald, a tool that collects and organizes user feedback across multiple channels like Intercom, Front, Email, and Slack. It helps product and customer teams understand user problems more comprehensively and prioritize them by aligning feedback to business goals. Teams can use it internally, share selectively with customers, or publish roadmaps and changelogs publicly.

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

We live in Dublin, CA and remotely; the company would be based in the same area after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in Dublin because that is where we live and where we can easily collaborate while also supporting remote work. Being close to Silicon Valley helps us stay connected to the ecosystem.

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 Herald YC application?

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