PetaSales YC Application

Winter 2009Inactive

PetaSales went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2009 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 2009
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Nick AlexanderFounder

PetaSales's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

PetaSales, Winter 2009 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

PetaSales

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Sales lead generation for B2B marketers

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

We built a sales lead generation platform that helps B2B marketing teams find, qualify, and engage potential customers more efficiently. Our product automates the process of identifying promising leads and delivering them in a way sales reps can act on quickly.

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

We live in San Francisco and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the center of tech and B2B startups, which means access to potential customers, partners, and talent. Being here helps us stay close to where our market operates and where the action is.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real PetaSales YC application?

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