StackLead YC Application

Winter 2014Acquired

StackLead 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: B2BSales
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2013

Founders

Gordon WintrobFounder/CEO
Ted TomlinsonFounder

What StackLead does

StackLead automatically analyzes sales leads. Starting with only an email address, we pull together all the research a sales rep needs to understand a lead and their business. With this information, sales teams close more deals because they can effectively tailor their messaging and they don't have to spend time manually researching every new lead. You can access StackLead research wherever you need it. If you already have an internal email when a user signs up, you can forward it to StackLead and we'll reply with a complete research report. We also provide a Salesforce integration (stacklead.com/blog/qualifying-leads-in-salesforce-with-stacklead/) and webhooks API (stacklead.com/docs). Get started at stacklead.com or contact us at

StackLead's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

StackLead

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Lead intelligence as a service

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

We built StackLead to automatically analyze sales leads starting from just an email address. Our product pulls together all the research a sales rep needs to understand the lead and their business in one report. This helps sales teams tailor their messaging and close more deals without spending time on manual research. We offer integrations like Salesforce and a webhooks API to fit into existing workflows.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will continue to be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where most B2B sales and tech companies are, so it's the best place to build and test our product with early users.

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 StackLead YC application?

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