TeamNote YC Application

Winter 2015Active

TeamNote went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 11
Status: Active
Launched: 2014

Founders

Roy LawFounder
Ming LoFounder/CTO
Jon YipFounder

What TeamNote does

TeamNote as a company was conceived in 2014 after spinning off from AppTask, a Hong Kong mobile app development company specialized in enterprise mobile solution development. TeamNote’s mission is to help corporations unleash the productivity of their mobile workforce and maximize their working efficiency that mobile technology brings about. TeamNote as a product started off its research and development in 2013 and was officially launched to the market in the first quarter of 2014. The first customer in Hong Kong is Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd. In January 2015 TeamNote joined the renowned Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator as incubatee.

TeamNote's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

TeamNote, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

TeamNote

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Mobile productivity for mobile workforces

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

We are building a mobile productivity app designed for frontline and mobile workers. It functions as a communication and collaboration tool similar to Slack but optimized for teams that don't sit at desks - mobile salesforces, delivery crews, and field staff. Our product started development in 2013 and launched in early 2014 with real customers in Hong Kong.

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

We live in Hong Kong and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Hong Kong is where we built our first customers and understand the mobile workforce problems deeply. It's also where we spun off from our previous company, AppTask, and where our team is.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real TeamNote YC application?

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