Symple YC Application

Summer 2016Acquired

Symple went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2016 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 2016
Industry: B2BFinance and Accounting
Team size: 11
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2016

Founders

Steve AbrahamFounder/CEO

What Symple does

Symple is building a logistics platform for field service & delivery teams. Our platform is re-shaping the $30Bn field service management market by powering real-time collaboration and communication across massively distributed service teams. Symple's mission is to modernize the way over 400M mobile-service workers complete their daily tasks, share information and interact with their customers -- which means touching, in some capacity, every businesses on the planet.

Symple's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Symple, Summer 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Symple

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Last mile logistics for delivery & service teams

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

We built a logistics platform that helps field service and delivery teams coordinate in real time. It powers communication and collaboration for mobile workers to complete daily tasks and keep customers informed. Our product is designed for companies managing widely distributed service teams.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA and the company is based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco puts us close to customers, investors, and the tech ecosystem we need to grow Symple.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Symple YC application?

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