PiinPoint YC Application

Winter 2014Active

PiinPoint went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2014
Industry: B2BOffice Management
Team size: 20
Status: Active
Launched: 2013

Founders

Jim RobesonFounder
Adam SaundersFounder/CTO

What PiinPoint does

PiinPoint is changing the way businesses identify the best location for expansion. Our modern day SAAS solution enables businesses to use powerful tools to search and validate locations throughout North America. We centralize a variety of datasets such as traffic, demographics, and available commercial real estate to ensure businesses can make a fast and reliable decision about where to expand.

PiinPoint's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

PiinPoint, Winter 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

PiinPoint

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Helps businesses find best growth locations

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

We built a SaaS platform that combines datasets like traffic patterns, demographics, and available commercial real estate to help businesses search for and validate the best locations for expansion across North America. It streamlines what used to be a slow, fragmented process into one tool for quick, data-driven decisions.

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

We live in Kitchener, ON, Canada, and the company is based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Kitchener is where we started building the product and have our team. The area gives us access to talent and proximity to key early users in North America.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real PiinPoint YC application?

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