SketchDeck YC Application

Winter 2014Acquired

SketchDeck went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2014 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 2014
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 20
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2013

Founders

Chris FinneralFounder/CEO
David MackFounder/CTO

What SketchDeck does

SketchDeck is your always ready design team. We give you 24/7 access to high quality, on brand design for all your marketing, sales and communication needs. We're built for the quality, scale and speed modern teams demand.

SketchDeck's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

SketchDeck, Winter 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

SketchDeck

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Operating system for creative agencies

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

We built an always-ready design team that provides 24/7 access to high-quality, on-brand design for marketing, sales, and communications. Our platform handles the workflow and coordination so teams can get design work done at speed and scale without hiring internally.

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

We live in San Francisco and have a distributed remote team. The company would be based in San Francisco after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we started and where the creative and tech communities we rely on are concentrated. Remote work lets us tap talent and serve clients broadly while keeping a hub in the Bay Area.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real SketchDeck YC application?

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