Value Voting YC Application

Summer 2017Inactive

Value Voting went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2017 batch as a Government 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 2017
Industry: Government
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2017

Founders

Can SarFounder/CTO
James VaughanFounder

What Value Voting does

Value Voting develops political targeting software for advocacy groups.

Value Voting's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Value Voting, Summer 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Value Voting

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Platform to defeat political extremism through strategic primary targeting

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

We build political targeting software that advocacy groups use to plan and run strategic primary campaigns. Our platform helps these groups identify and support candidates who can reduce political polarization by winning primaries against extremists.

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

We do not have a fixed location currently. Post-YC, we plan to be based wherever it makes the most sense to build and sell our product effectively, likely in a U.S. political center.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Since our product serves advocacy groups focused on U.S. politics, being close to key stakeholders and potential customers after YC will help us refine the product and grow our network.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Value Voting YC application?

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