HighlightCam YC Application

Summer 2009Inactive

HighlightCam went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2009
Industry: ConsumerContent
Team size: 11
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Michael KatsevmanFounder/CTO
Michael James O'KellyFounder

What HighlightCam does

Founded in 2009, HighlightCam is a YC-alum & 500Startups-funded company bent on taking over the world, one movie at a time. HighlightCam is revolutionizing how users create (and share) movies with a powerful mobile and desktop video-editing platform that takes your favorite videos & pictures & produces professional-quality movies. Now, your most important memories can be automatically transformed into meaningful video snapshots. HighlightCam is based out of Mountain View, CA.

HighlightCam's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

HighlightCam, Summer 2009 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

HighlightCam

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

HighlightCam edits video, automatically!

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

We build a video-editing platform that automatically turns your favorite videos and pictures into professional-quality movies. It works on both mobile and desktop, letting users create meaningful video snapshots of their memories without manual editing.

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

We're based in Mountain View, CA, and will continue to be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Mountain View is where we are now and where we built the product. It's where our team lives and works and gives us access to talent and the startup ecosystem.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real HighlightCam YC application?

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