HockeyStack YC Application

Summer 2023Active

HockeyStack went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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: Summer 2023
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 65
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Buğra GündüzCo-Founder & CEO
Emir AtliFounder
Arda BulutFounder

What HockeyStack does

HockeyStack improves sales outcomes for B2B companies by helping them record and understand every interaction their customers have with their marketing, sales reps, CSMs, and products. We map every customer touchpoint from ad impression to closed won and to upsell using our own tracking script and native integrations to the B2B GTM tech stack. Building this source of truth allow us to give companies previously hidden insights that generate incremental revenue, such as: - Deploy marketing budget: "Launch this ad campaign to this audience to generate $XM in pipeline" - Target the right accounts with the right messaging: "These accounts have the highest likelihood to convert, put them on this email sequence" - Convert more of the pipeline: “Pied Piper hasn't visited the site for 8 days; give Jim a phone call”

HockeyStack's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

HockeyStack, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

HockeyStack

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The operating system for inbound B2B revenue

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

We build a product that tracks every interaction B2B customers have with marketing, sales reps, CSMs, and products. This includes everything from ad impressions to closed deals and upsells. By mapping every touchpoint, we surface insights that help companies improve targeting, marketing spend, and sales follow-up actions.

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 we have built our team and product. Being here keeps us close to potential customers and partners, as well as the tech ecosystem YC is part of.

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 HockeyStack YC application?

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