Meetingbird YC Application

Summer 2017Acquired

Meetingbird went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2017 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 2017
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2017

Founders

Paul DornierFounder/CEO
Henry DornierFounder

What Meetingbird does

Meetingbird is the calendar with superpowers. Individuals and teams from companies like Uber, Shopify, and Yelp use Meetingbird to make their meetings great. See what Meetingbird can do for you at meetingbird.com.

Meetingbird's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Meetingbird, Summer 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Meetingbird

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automated meeting scheduling for teams

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

Meetingbird is a calendar tool built specifically for individuals and teams to schedule meetings efficiently. It automates the back-and-forth of finding meeting times, integrates deeply with email and calendars, and helps companies like Uber, Shopify, and Yelp reduce scheduling friction.

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

We currently live in San Francisco, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are now and where a lot of our users and potential customers are based. It's the best place for us to grow a B2B productivity tool like Meetingbird.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Meetingbird YC application?

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