Streak YC Application

Summer 2011Active

Streak went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2011 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 2011
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 35
Status: Active
Launched: 2012

Founders

Aleem MawaniFounder

What Streak does

Streak is the only CRM integrated entirely within your Gmail inbox, and works alongside all your other G Suite applications. It can be used to track any business process including sales, partnerships, support, hiring, deal flow, and much more. Streak also includes a powerful set of email tools including email tracking, send later, snoozing, mail merge, and more.

Streak's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Streak, Summer 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Streak

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Transforms Gmail into a powerful CRM

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

We built Streak to bring CRM directly into Gmail, so users can manage sales, support, hiring, and other workflows without leaving their inbox. It also adds tools like email tracking, send later, snoozing, and mail merge.

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, with remote team members as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in San Francisco because it connects us to a strong tech community and potential users; the remote setup lets us hire talent beyond the city.

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 Streak YC application?

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