PersistIQ YC Application

Summer 2014Acquired

PersistIQ went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2014 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 2014
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 10
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2014

Founders

Pouyan SalehiFounder/CEO
Cyrus KarbassiyoonFounder/CTO

What PersistIQ does

PersistIQ is a free email automation platform to send a small batch of personalized emails. We help hundreds of small teams (1-200 employees), particularly YC companies, send batches of personalized emails for sales, marketing, and other customer outreach. Our platform is simple to set up, allows custom sequence building, A/B testing, and analytics. Our integrations with Salesforce, Copper, and Zapier allow for a streamlined workflow.

PersistIQ's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

PersistIQ, Summer 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

PersistIQ

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Free email automation for small batch outreach

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

We built PersistIQ, a platform that lets small teams send personalized batches of emails for sales and marketing. It includes features like custom sequences, A/B testing, and analytics, with integrations to Salesforce, Copper, and Zapier to streamline workflows.

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

We live in San Mateo, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC, with some remote team members.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Mateo puts us near a lot of early users and YC companies who rely on personalized email outreach. Being local helps us stay close to the problem and iterate fast.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real PersistIQ YC application?

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