PlanGrid YC Application

Winter 2012Acquired

PlanGrid went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 batch as a Real Estate and Construction 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 2012
Industry: Real Estate and ConstructionConstruction
Team size: 355
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2011

Founders

Tracy YoungFounder/CEO
Ralph GooteeFounder/CTO
Ryan Sutton-GeeFounder

What PlanGrid does

PlanGrid is the leader in construction productivity software, used on more than one million projects in 84 countries. PlanGrid's cloud-based platform empowers contractors and owners in commercial, heavy civil, and other industries to collaborate easily from their mobile devices and desktop, managing blueprints, specs, photos, RFIs, field reports, and punch lists. With over 100 million digital blueprints on its platform, PlanGrid is also the largest digital blueprint repository in the world. Founded in 2011, the company was part of Y Combinator in 2012, and has secured over $69 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital and several other top firms.

PlanGrid's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

PlanGrid, Winter 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

PlanGrid

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Mobile applications for the construction industry

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

We're building a mobile and cloud platform that lets construction contractors and owners manage blueprints, specs, photos, RFIs, field reports, and punch lists. The product makes it easy for users on job sites to access and collaborate on construction project documents from their devices.

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

We live in San Francisco, and PlanGrid will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the right mix of talent and potential customers in construction tech to make it the ideal base for PlanGrid.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real PlanGrid YC application?

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