Pursuit YC Application

Summer 2016Acquired

Pursuit went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2016 batch as a Consumer 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 2016
Industry: ConsumerGaming
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2016

Founders

Adam HuenikenFounder/Vice President of Engineering

What Pursuit does

Revlo helps eSports streamers better connect, engage, and monetize their fan base. Today, thousands of gamers are becoming online celebrities as they stream their video games to over 100 million fans all over the world. Yet, the only method for popular streamers to interact with their fans while streaming is in a cluttered IRC chat room. Revlo allows streamers to reward their loyal fans with recognition, merchandise, and interaction opportunities. Naturally, fans engage more, driving up repeat viewership and conversion into paid subscription on a streamer's channel.

Pursuit's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Pursuit, Summer 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pursuit

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Tools to engage and monetize Twitch streamers

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

We built Revlo to help eSports streamers better connect with their fans beyond the cluttered Twitch chat. Our product rewards loyal viewers through recognition, merchandise, and interactive opportunities. This drives more engagement, more repeat viewers, and helps streamers convert fans into paid subscribers to their channel.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where the gaming and streaming community is strong. Being here keeps us close to early users and partners who are on Twitch and in eSports.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pursuit YC application?

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