Tumult YC Application

Winter 2011Active

Tumult went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2011
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 1
Status: Active
Launched: 2012

Founders

Jonathan DeutschFounder/CEO

What Tumult does

Tumult Inc. makes the next generation of designer tools to produce beautiful web content.

Tumult's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Tumult, Winter 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Tumult

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Web design tools for creating interactive content

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

We are building Tumult Hype, a web design tool that lets designers create interactive and animated web content without writing code. It outputs standards-compliant HTML5, so the work runs natively on any modern browser or device. Our product is aimed at web designers and content creators frustrated by existing tools that require heavy coding or produce clunky results.

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

We currently live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the right mix of tech talent, potential customers, and investor access. It's where we live and work now, so staying here makes sense.

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 Tumult YC application?

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