Shogun YC Application

Winter 2018Active

Shogun 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 90
Status: Active
Launched: 2017

Founders

Finbarr TaylorFounder/CEO
Nick RaushenbushFounder

What Shogun does

Shogun is an ecommerce experience platform empowering brands to drive higher conversions, revenue, and brand loyalty. Our products Shogun Page Builder and Shogun Frontend help teams build and optimize their online stores to deliver exceptional experiences. Our products integrate with ecommerce platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce, and our 20,000+ customers include Leesa, MVMT, Timbuk2, and Chubbies. Visit for more. We're an inclusive, remote, diverse, and globally distributed team. And we’re hiring!

Shogun's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Shogun

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Ecommerce experience platform for brands

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

We build Shogun Page Builder and Shogun Frontend, tools brands use to build and customize their ecommerce stores. Our products integrate with Shopify and BigCommerce, letting brands improve their site experience to increase conversions and loyalty.

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

We live in San Carlos and Palo Alto, CA, and are distributed remotely. Post-YC, we'll keep the company based in California with a distributed remote-first team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our team is already distributed across San Carlos, Palo Alto, and remote, so we focus on hiring talent wherever they are. California offers access to technical talent and investors, and remote work lets us scale globally.

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.

See full application

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Shogun YC application?

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