Socialcam YC Application

Winter 2012Acquired

Socialcam went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 batch as a Consumer 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 2012
Industry: ConsumerContent
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2011

Founders

Guillaume LuccisanoFounder/Vice President Engineering
Ammon BartramFounder

What Socialcam does

Socialcam is a new mobile video application coming to both iPhone and Android. Socialcam makes it fast, easy and fun to capture, share and view high quality movies of life's moments with friends and family.

Socialcam's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Socialcam, Winter 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Socialcam

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Easiest way to share videos with friends and family

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

We built Socialcam, a mobile app for iPhone and Android that makes it straightforward to capture, upload, and share videos with your social network. It handles capturing high-quality clips, auto-uploads to the cloud, and smooth sharing so people don't have to deal with complicated video transfers or editing tools.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company will remain based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we built the product and where we have our resources and connections; staying here keeps us close to our users and the tech ecosystem we depend on.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Socialcam YC application?

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