Pixate YC Application

Summer 2012Acquired

Pixate went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2012 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 2012
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 10
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Paul ColtonFounder/CEO
Kevin LindseyFounder/Lead Architect

What Pixate does

Pixate was acquired by Google, Inc. in July 2015. * Pixate was founded in May 2012 with the goal of enabling designers and developers to create beautiful, native mobile apps quickly and easily. Pixate's flagship product, the Pixate Engine for iOS, integrates a CSS-based styling engine, graphics rendering system, and a SVG-subset for supporting scalable vector graphics. The CSS-based stylings can be changed at run-time and can be downloaded and updated on-demand. The Pixate Engine for iOS version 1.0 is currently available for purchase or for trial download at pixate.com. Pixate was a Y-Combinator Summer 2012 participant and raised early funding through a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012.

Pixate's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Pixate, Summer 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pixate

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Mobile application prototyping

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

We are building Pixate, a tool that helps designers and developers prototype native mobile apps quickly. Our Pixate Engine for iOS integrates styling with a CSS-based approach, a graphics renderer, and scalable vector graphics support. This lets users style prototypes with code-like precision and update styles at runtime.

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

We live in Palo Alto, CA, and after YC the company would continue to be based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in Palo Alto puts us near users, engineers, and investors who understand mobile and design tools - key for our product development and growth.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pixate YC application?

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