Simperium YC Application

Summer 2010Acquired

Simperium went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2010 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: Summer 2010
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Fred ChengFounder

What Simperium does

Simperium is a Y Combinator-funded company that builds a platform for syncing content among people and their devices. They released Simplenote as a showcase of this platform.

Simperium's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Simperium, Summer 2010 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Simperium

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Simplenote and syncing platform

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

We're building Simperium, a platform that syncs content instantly and reliably across people's devices. To show it works, we built Simplenote, a lightweight note-taking app that syncs seamlessly across phones, tablets, and computers. Our goal is to make syncing so simple that developers can add it to any app without hassle.

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're in San Francisco because it's where our network and potential partners are. Being here lets us move quickly, get feedback from users, and work closely together in person, which is crucial for technical problems like syncing.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Simperium YC application?

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