Natero YC Application

Summer 2012Acquired

Natero went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2012 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 2012
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 11
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Craig SoulesFounder/CEO

What Natero does

Natero helps Customer Success Managers reduce churn, increase expansion, and manage more accounts with less effort. Natero is the only Customer Success solution to combine predictive analytics, customer intelligence, and workflow management in a unified platform. This next generation solution helps B2B software providers prioritize, automate, and scale their Customer Success processes.

Natero's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Natero, Summer 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Natero

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Data-driven customer success for B2B SaaS

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

We are building a platform for Customer Success Managers at B2B SaaS companies. It combines predictive analytics, customer intelligence, and workflow management to help them reduce churn, grow expansion, and manage more accounts without increasing headcount.

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

We live in Mountain View, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Mountain View is where the B2B SaaS ecosystem and technical talent we need are concentrated, so it makes sense to build and grow the company here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Natero YC application?

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