Pinnacle YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Pinnacle went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2024
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Sean RoadesFounder
Ivan ZhangFounder

What Pinnacle does

Pinnacle is an API for RCS, the new standard for SMS for app-like text messages.

Pinnacle's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Pinnacle, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pinnacle

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

API & SDK for RCS messaging

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

We are building an API and SDK that allow businesses to integrate RCS messaging into their apps and workflows. This replaces traditional SMS with richer, app-like messages that can include images, buttons, and interactive content. Our product lets developers send and receive RCS text messages without building the underlying infrastructure themselves.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the best access to engineering talent and potential early customers in messaging and e-commerce, so it makes sense to be here for YC and afterwards.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pinnacle YC application?

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