Moltin YC Application

Winter 2015Acquired

Moltin went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BRetail
Team size: 32
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2014

Founders

Jamie HoldroydFounder/CIO
Adam SturrockFounder/Vice President Customer Success

What Moltin does

At Moltin, we believe that brand experiences should never be obscured by technology and that commerce development should be simple, lightweight and fun. Moltin is an API-first digital commerce solution that enables retailers to build distinctive shopping experiences and embed them into any consumer touchpoint. It combines an extremely flexible set of APIs, developer toolkits, pre-built applications and cloud infrastructure to make commerce development simple, lightweight and fast. Moltin APIs are the simplest, most powerful in the industry. Retailers can test new channels quickly, scale into new markets, and keep pace with ever-evolving consumer trends. With Moltin, commerce flows seamlessly across any channel, device and experience. Moltin has a rapidly growing community of more than 17,000 developers around the world, pushing the boundaries of traditional commerce.

Moltin's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Moltin, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Moltin

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

eCommerce building blocks through simple APIs

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

We built an API-first commerce platform that lets retailers build custom shopping experiences in any app or website. Instead of monolithic platforms, we offer modular APIs so developers and brands can build exactly what they want without wrestling with heavy legacy systems.

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

We live in Boston, and after YC the company would remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Boston is where we built the product and the team, and it keeps us close to our early users and engineering talent. There's no reason to move after YC.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Moltin YC application?

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