Venuetastic YC Application

Winter 2011Inactive

Venuetastic 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: B2BOffice Management
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Lena Belkor (Belogolova)Founder
Christine YenFounder

What Venuetastic does

Find the perfect venue for your next event! Venuetastic is an event venue marketplace that is changing the way people discover and book venues. We're passionate about streamlining the most painful part of event planning - wading through budget, location, and size constraints to find the right venue space.

Venuetastic's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Venuetastic

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Venue marketplace.

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

We are building an event venue marketplace that helps people discover and book the perfect venue for their events. It simplifies sorting through endless options by focusing on budget, location, and size constraints so event planners can find the right space quickly.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company would be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where the event planning and tech scenes converge. It's the best place for us to build local venue relationships and connect with early users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Venuetastic YC application?

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