StyleBee YC Application

Summer 2015Inactive

StyleBee went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2015 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: Summer 2015
Industry: ConsumerHome and Personal
Team size: 11
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2015

Founders

Anna SanteramoFounder/CEO

What StyleBee does

STYLEBEE is a beauty services provider, offering affordable and premier hair and make-up services to our clients anywhere, at any time. Our clients range from the working mom to the busy professional to the social weekender to the celebrity - common to them all is that they believe looking and feeling their best makes them be their best. Our highly vetted, seasoned beauty professionals provide each and every woman with a customized, glamorous experience - every day is an event. STYLEBEE empowers every woman/man to experience beauty/men's grooming on their own terms. We help women everywhere, at any time, look and feel beautiful - because when you feel amazing, you make amazing things happen.

StyleBee's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

StyleBee, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

StyleBee

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Marketplace for on-demand beauty services

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

We built a marketplace that connects clients with vetted beauty professionals who come to them for hair and make-up services. The product lets busy professionals, moms, and anyone needing grooming services book affordable appointments at their convenience, anywhere and anytime.

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 now and would stay here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we found our early customers and beauty professionals. The city's density and culture support on-demand services for busy people, which fits our model perfectly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real StyleBee YC application?

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