Heyzap YC Application

Winter 2009Acquired

Heyzap went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2009 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 2009
Industry: ConsumerGaming
Team size: 11
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Immad AkhundFounder/CEO
Jude GomilaFounder/Entrepreneur

What Heyzap does

Heyzap is a premier mobile ad network that helps millions of users discover apps they love. Heyzap’s SDK for Android and iOS apps allows both well-established app producers and innovative indie developers to monetize and bring their apps to a wide audience. It currently provides advertising, publishing, mediation, and cross-promotion services to mobile developers worldwide. Heyzap is based in San Francisco and was founded in 2009 by Jude Gomila and Immad Akhund.

Heyzap's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Heyzap, Winter 2009 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Heyzap

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Mobile ad network for app discovery

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

We are building a mobile ad network that helps app developers monetize their apps and acquire new users. Our SDK integrates into Android and iOS apps, providing advertising, publishing, mediation, and cross-promotion services to bring apps to a wider audience.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the mobile and gaming startup community thrives, and it puts us close to both developers and advertisers who use our platform.

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 Heyzap YC application?

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