Team Apart YC Application

Summer 2008Inactive

Team Apart went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2008 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 2008
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Gordon HemptonFounder/CEO
Wes HatherFounder
Michael HoisieFounder

What Team Apart does

Team Apart is a real-time online group collaboration tool.

Team Apart's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Team Apart, Summer 2008 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Team Apart

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Real-time online group collaboration tool

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

We are building Team Apart, a real-time collaboration tool for teams who need to work together online. It allows multiple users to interact live on shared documents or projects to improve productivity and communication across distributed groups.

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

n/a

Explain your decision regarding location.

n/a

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 Team Apart YC application?

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