Mailgun YC Application
Mailgun went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2011 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 2011
- Industry
- B2BEngineering, Product and Design
- Team size
- 51
- Status
- Acquired
- Launched
- 2012
Founders
Ev KontsevoyFounder/CEO
Taylor WakefieldFounder
What Mailgun does
Mailgun is a developer-focused email delivery platform that empowers companies to send, receive, and track transactional and marketing emails through an API. Founded in 2010, Mailgun became a Y-Combinator success story later acquired by Rackspace. In February 2017, Mailgun spun back out as a standalone business focused on building best-in-class email deliverability solutions. We are headquartered in San Antonio with remote teams in San Francisco and Austin. Customers like Slack, Lyft, Github, and Reddit rely on Mailgun to deliver email to their customers.
Mailgun's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Mailgun, Winter 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Mailgun
Email API service.
We are building an email delivery platform that lets developers send, receive, and track transactional and marketing emails through a simple API. Our product handles complex email infrastructure so developers don't have to manage their own SMTP servers or worry about deliverability.
We are currently based in San Francisco, CA. After YC, the company would remain in San Francisco or nearby to stay close to tech talent and our early users.
San Francisco has the engineering talent we need and is home to most of our early customers. Being close to the startup ecosystem helps us build partnerships and hire effectively.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Mailgun YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Mailgun's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Mailgun would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Mailgun in?
Mailgun was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2011 batch.
Who founded Mailgun?
Mailgun was founded by Ev Kontsevoy, Taylor Wakefield.
What does Mailgun do?
Email API service.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Mailgun's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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