Kivo YC Application

Summer 2013Inactive

Kivo went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2013 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 2013
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2013

Founders

Leo AnthiasFounder/CTO
Niluka SatharasingheFounder

What Kivo does

The easiest way to work with someone else on a document. Kivo is a plugin that makes it incredibly easy to edit a document with other people. It allows you to share edits and store versions of a document without ever leaving your editing application - eg. PowerPoint.

Kivo's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Kivo, Summer 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Kivo

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Git for Documents

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

We built a plugin that lets people collaborate on documents like PowerPoint without leaving the editing app. It syncs edits and stores versions so teams can work together seamlessly inside their preferred software.

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

We live in Palo Alto, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Palo Alto has a strong tech community and proximity to potential customers and partners, so it's the right place for us to grow Kivo.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Kivo YC application?

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