Hipmob YC Application

Winter 2012Inactive

Hipmob 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: B2BOperations
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2011

Founders

Olufemi OmojolaFounder

What Hipmob does

Hipmob brings easy to use live chat, helpdesk, feedback and customer engagement tools to mobile and tablet businesses. Whether you're a mobile-native startup, a small business going mobile, or a large public company with a growing mobile business, we give you the tools to increase sales, transform customer support, and make your customers happy. With real time contextual information about your customers including device, app, OS, geographic info and more, you'll be able to make take actions that improve your bottomline. Our partnerships and integrations (see more at mean that we'll fit right into your team's habits. AND, we're insanely responsive to customer feedback - email us with questions at!

Hipmob's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hipmob

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Customer communication for iOS and Android developers

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

We built live chat, helpdesk, feedback, and customer engagement tools that integrate directly inside mobile and tablet apps. Our product lets developers see real-time contextual info like device, OS, app version, and location, so they can respond smarter and faster to their customers. It's built specifically for mobile-native businesses or any company with a growing mobile user base.

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

Olufemi is based in Boston, Gaurav in Palo Alto. Post-YC we plan to base the company in the Bay Area to be close to developers and investors.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose Boston and Palo Alto since that's where we live. After YC, being in Palo Alto puts us closer to the heart of mobile development and the YC network.

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 Hipmob YC application?

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