Notifo YC Application

Profile updated September 9, 2026Winter 2010Inactive

San Francisco, CA, USA

Notifo went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2010 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 2010
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Chad EtzelFounder

What Notifo does

Notifo is a mobile application and platform which allows any web site or service to easily create mobile notifications. While it's currently only an iPhone app, the plan is to eventually work on Android and BlackBerry devices too.

Notifo's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Notifo, Winter 2010 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Notifo

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Mobile notifications for websites and services

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

We're building Notifo, a mobile app and platform that lets any website or online service send mobile notifications. Right now it's an iPhone app, letting sites push updates straight to users' phones. We plan to expand to Android and BlackBerry later.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the right network and talent pool for mobile and web services, so it makes sense to build the company here.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Notifo YC application?

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