Laudspeaker YC Application

Winter 2021Acquired

Laudspeaker went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 3
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2021

Founders

Abheek BasuFounder
Mahamad CharawiFounder

What Laudspeaker does

Open source mobile marketing automation and customer onboarding platform. Alternative to braze customer io / iterable / pendo / appcues. Segment and engage your users with complex scheduled push notification, sms and email campaigns.

Laudspeaker's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Laudspeaker, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Laudspeaker

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open source mobile marketing platform

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

Laudspeaker is an open source platform for mobile marketing automation and customer onboarding. It lets teams create and schedule complex push notifications, SMS, and email campaigns to segment and engage their users. Our product offers a self-hosted alternative to Braze, Customer.io, Iterable, Pendo, and Appcues, focusing on openness and control.

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

We're based in Mountain View, CA, with remote team members. After YC we'll remain headquartered in Mountain View, continuing a mix of in-office and remote work.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We started in Mountain View where we live and work. Staying here keeps us close to a hub of engineering and startups, which is helpful for hiring and partnerships.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Laudspeaker YC application?

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