Siasto YC Application

Winter 2011Inactive

Siasto went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2011 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 2011
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Courtland AllenFounder

What Siasto does

Siasto is a collaboration and project management tool that integrates into Google Apps, Gmail, Google Drive, GCal, box, and Dropbox. It's used by teams, SMBs, and enterprises to keep all their tasks, events, projects, and files in the same place. It allows users to create tasks, events, and documents all from the inbox. Siasto was started by the founders of Taskforce ( who's previous experience in task management led them to building Siasto. Siasto is backed by YCombinator and other angel investors.

Siasto's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Siasto, Winter 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Siasto

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Collaboration tool for SMBs using Google Apps

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

We are building a collaboration and project management tool that integrates directly into Google Apps, including Gmail, Drive, and Calendar, as well as Box and Dropbox. It lets teams keep tasks, events, projects, and files together, and users can create tasks and documents straight from their inbox. Our goal is to make managing work inside Google Apps easier for SMBs and enterprises.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live in San Francisco because it's the center of the tech ecosystem and where a lot of our target customers and partners are. Staying here keeps us close to resources and potential users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Siasto YC application?

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