Skio YC Application

Summer 2020Acquired

Skio went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 70
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2020

Founders

Kennan FrostFounder

What Skio does

Skio ($105M cash exit, $32M ARR, $8M raised) is subscription management software for brands on Shopify.

Skio's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Skio, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Skio

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Subscriptions for Shopify

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

We build subscription management software tailored for Shopify brands. Our product helps direct-to-consumer businesses run and scale their subscription programs without the limits or complexity of existing tools. Merchants can handle billing, customer portals, swaps, and analytics, all integrated tightly with Shopify's backend.

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

We live in New York, NY, and after YC the company will be based there with a distributed remote team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York gives us access to a diverse talent pool and a large base of ecommerce brands. Remote work helps us scale engineering and support across different time zones.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Skio YC application?

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