Pomello YC Application

Winter 2015Acquired

Pomello went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Team size: 8
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2014

Founders

Oliver StaehelinFounder
Catherine SpenceFounder

What Pomello does

Pomello maps your organizational culture on a team-by-team basis, and integrates with your existing recruiting process to allow you to find the candidates most likely to thrive within your organization. Founded at Stanford University, Pomello’s technology is based on 30 years of research in Organizational Behavior, which has been validated over time across multiple industries.

Pomello's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Pomello, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pomello

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Organizational culture analytics software

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

Pomello maps organizational culture on a team-by-team basis and integrates with recruiting processes. It helps companies measure and analyze culture to identify candidates who'll thrive there, based on decades of organizational behavior research.

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

We live and are based in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we're located and where the B2B recruiting and talent market is concentrated. It gives us access to customers and talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pomello YC application?

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