PartnerStack YC Application

Summer 2015Active

PartnerStack went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2015
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 200
Status: Active
Launched: 2015

Founders

Neil ChudleighCofounder
Bryn JonesFounder
Jonathan MendesFounder/Designer
Luke SwanekFounder

What PartnerStack does

PartnerStack is a full stack solution for partnerships. The platform supports partner marketing, referral, and reseller activity, and solves for partner application management, engagement, attribution, education, payouts, compliance, and additional partner channel needs. Companies using PartnerStack have their program listed in PartnerStack's marketplace, exposing their program to a growing network of +450,000 partners. These companies see a +30% revenue increase in their partner channels due to partners acquired through PartnerStack's network. The network allows partners to sell multiple SaaS applications from a single platform - a necessity for integrated SaaS solutions investing in channel. The most trusted and fastest growing SaaS companies in the world are turning to PartnerStack to support their channel growth, including Intuit, Asana, Freshworks, Zendesk, Aircall, Intercom, and more.

PartnerStack's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

PartnerStack, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

PartnerStack

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Full stack solution for partnerships

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

We built a platform that manages the full lifecycle of partner programs, including application, engagement, attribution, education, payouts, and compliance. It supports partner marketing, referrals, and reseller activities. It also connects companies with a marketplace of over 450,000 partners who can sell multiple SaaS products from one place.

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

We live and operate in Toronto, ON, Canada and plan to base the company there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in Toronto where we have access to talent familiar with B2B SaaS and channels. Toronto's ecosystem supports building and scaling SaaS platforms like ours.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real PartnerStack YC application?

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