Qulture.Rocks YC Application

Winter 2018Acquired

Qulture.Rocks went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 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 2018
Industry: B2BHuman Resources
Team size: 70
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2017

Founders

Francisco Homem de MelloFounder/CEO

What Qulture.Rocks does

Qulture.Rocks makes people management, OKR management, and culture management software for some of the world's most innovative companies, backed by the likes of Founders Fund, Blackstone, Sequoia, and Tiger Global. Our suite of products encompasses 1:1s, engagement surveys, performance reviews, OKRs/goals, ongoing feedback, and peer to peer recognition, and integrates seamlessly with your existing software (including Slack). We also help our customers design their processes, which is of special help for startups and scaleups implementing these practices for the first time.

Qulture.Rocks's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Qulture.Rocks, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Qulture.Rocks

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The people, management, and culture operating system

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

We build software that helps startups and scaleups manage people, culture, and performance. Our tools include 1:1s, engagement surveys, performance reviews, OKRs/goals tracking, ongoing feedback, and peer-to-peer recognition. The product integrates with common tools like Slack and helps companies design the processes behind these practices when they're new to them.

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

We are currently based in San Francisco, CA, USA and would continue to be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where most of our customers and talent are. Staying here keeps us close to early adopters and top engineers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Qulture.Rocks YC application?

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