PartnerHQ YC Application

Winter 2024Active

PartnerHQ went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Kat WangFounder
Stan LiuFounder

What PartnerHQ does

PartnerHQ is building the next generation LinkedIn. We are creating the world’s most valuable and accurate professional network graph by capturing and indexing vast quantities of relationship signals. Individuals use PartnerHQ to grow and monetize their networks. B2B companies use PartnerHQ to buy warm intros and drive high-value sales. PartnerHQ was created during Y Combinator’s W24 cohort and launched in February of 2024. Since launch we have signed on hundreds of paying companies, domestic and international. 97% of all users have come inbound or word-of-mouth.

PartnerHQ's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

PartnerHQ, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

PartnerHQ

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

A marketplace for B2B businesses to buy warm intros.

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

We're building PartnerHQ, a professional network that captures relationship signals to create an accurate graph of connections. Individuals use it to grow and monetize their networks. B2B companies use it to buy warm intros and close high-value sales.

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

We live in San Francisco and PartnerHQ will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco puts us close to our customers, investors, and a strong tech talent pool.

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 PartnerHQ YC application?

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