Interstate Analytics YC Application

Winter 2016Inactive

Interstate Analytics went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2016 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 2016
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2015

Founders

Amir GhazvinianFounder/CTO
Jamie QuintFounder

What Interstate Analytics does

Interstate Analytics helps marketers make smarter decisions. The customers of the company are Betabrand, Outdoor Voices, EVERLANE, and JACK ERWIN. It pulls in its users’ visit, conversion, and spends data across all channels and centralizes it in a dashboard. It allows its users to spend less time wrangling data and more time acting on it. It applies attribution models to its users’ data that take into account all consumer touchpoints and makes better spend allocation decisions with accurate performance data. The company deterministically syncs marketing spends and conversion data across devices. Interstate Analytics was founded in 2015.

Interstate Analytics's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Interstate Analytics, Winter 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Interstate Analytics

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Multi-Touch Marketing Analytics

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

We built a marketing analytics platform that pulls in visit, conversion, and spend data from all channels and centralizes it in a dashboard. It applies attribution models to show how all consumer touchpoints contribute to conversions, letting marketers make smarter spend allocation decisions across devices.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company would be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are already based in San Francisco where our customers and marketing technology ecosystem are. Staying here helps us stay close to early users and industry partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Interstate Analytics YC application?

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