Lattice YC Application

Winter 2016Active

Lattice 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: B2BHuman Resources
Team size: 540
Status: Active
Launched: 2015

Founders

Jack AltmanFounder/CEO
Eric KoslowFounder/CTO

What Lattice does

Lattice is people success software that empowers leaders to build engaged and high- performing teams, inspire winning cultures, and make strategic, data-driven business decisions. Our software helps nearly 4,000 companies globally align employees to the most critical objectives, measure and reward performance, and create an effective feedback loop between employees and managers.

Lattice's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lattice

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Modern people management platform

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

We make a platform that helps companies manage employee performance and engagement. Our software lets managers set goals, collect feedback, run reviews, and analyze team data so they can build better cultures and improve outcomes.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, and Lattice is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco gives us direct access to our customers and the HR tech ecosystem, plus top-tier engineering talent. It's where we feel we can best grow and learn.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lattice YC application?

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