OneSignal YC Application

Summer 2011Active

OneSignal went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2011
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 150
Status: Active
Launched: 2012

Founders

Long VoFounder/COO

What OneSignal does

OneSignal is the leading omnichannel customer engagement solution, powering personalized customer journeys across mobile and web push notifications, in-app messaging, SMS, and email. Our easy-to-use interface empowers content creators to focus on quality user engagement instead of complex implementation. Our powerful platform enables over a million businesses to deliver 10 billion messages daily and 1 in 7 new apps launches using OneSignal! We support companies in 140 countries, including Zynga, USA Today, Bitcoin.com, Upwork, Tribune, and many more - from startups and small businesses just getting off the ground to established companies communicating with millions of customers.

OneSignal's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

OneSignal, Summer 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

OneSignal

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Engage customers through personalized omni-channel messaging

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

We build a messaging platform that helps businesses engage their customers through mobile and web push notifications, in-app messages, SMS, and email. Our product lets content creators launch and personalize these campaigns without complex engineering work.

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

We live in San Mateo, CA, and will continue to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose San Mateo because it's in Silicon Valley where we can connect easily with early customers and engineering talent. Staying here keeps us close to our network.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real OneSignal YC application?

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