reMail YC Application

Winter 2009Acquired

reMail went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2009 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 2009
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 1
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Gabor CselleFounder
Einar VollsetFounder

What reMail does

ReMail is an email app that downloads all your email to your iPhone and offers a comprehensive email search.

reMail's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

reMail, Winter 2009 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

reMail

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Email search for iPhone

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

We built an iPhone app, reMail, that downloads all your email locally so you can search through your entire inbox quickly and reliably. It fixes the painful experience of slow or incomplete email search on mobile by indexing everything on device.

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

We live in California, USA. The company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in California because that's where we live and where we can best connect to the tech ecosystem and iPhone development community.

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 reMail YC application?

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