Leftronic YC Application

Summer 2010Acquired

Leftronic went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2010 batch as a Consumer 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 2010
Industry: ConsumerConsumer Electronics
Team size: 11
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Rajiv GhantaFounder/CEO
Lionel JinglesFounder
Jyotindra VasudeoFounder

What Leftronic does

Leftronic is a Y Combinator-funded company that develops a web-based real-time dashboard application for monitoring a company's most important data. Leftronic business dashboards retrieve a company's metrics from popular services such as Google Analytics, Twitter, Zendesk and others, as well as receive custom metrics through a super-simple API. The dashboards update in real-time and are designed for large screens. This makes it easy for teams to monitor their company's critical metrics.

Leftronic's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Leftronic, Summer 2010 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Leftronic

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Business dashboards

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

We build a web-based real-time dashboard application that lets companies monitor their most important data on large screens. Our dashboards pull metrics from services like Google Analytics, Twitter, and Zendesk, as well as ingest custom data through a simple API. This helps teams track key metrics without digging through reports.

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

We live in San Francisco, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has access to early users and talent in analytics and SaaS, which fits the kind of product we have. Being here helps us stay close to our customers and the ecosystem.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Leftronic YC application?

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