Unicornly YC Application

Winter 2014Inactive

Unicornly went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2014 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 2014
Industry: B2BFinance and Accounting
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2013

Founders

Mike PalmerFounder/CEO
Brian GolerFounder

What Unicornly does

Unicorn.ly is an angel investing platform to help angels collaborate to source, evaluate, mentor, and invest in the most promising startups.

Unicornly's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Unicornly, Winter 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Unicornly

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Angel investor collaboration platform

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

We built Unicorn.ly to make angel investing more efficient by helping angels collaborate to find, evaluate, mentor, and invest in promising startups. It's a platform that connects investors to share deal flow and due diligence, streamlining the early-stage funding process.

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

We currently live in Palo Alto, CA, and the company will be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Palo Alto puts us close to both startups raising angel rounds and many angel investors, making it ideal to build and grow Unicorn.ly.

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 Unicornly YC application?

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