WorkRamp YC Application

Summer 2016Acquired

WorkRamp went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2016 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: Summer 2016
Industry: B2BHuman Resources
Team size: 106
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2016

Founders

Ted BlosserFounder/CEO
Arsh MandFounder/COO

What WorkRamp does

WorkRamp is the All-in-One Learning Platform that your executives, employees, and customers will love. WorkRamp advances learning as a growth engine for your business with a flexible platform that empowers teams to develop top talent, exceed revenue targets, and inspire customers to become advocates. With a flexible, All-in-One Learning Platform, WorkRamp redefines the LMS for the modern workplace to help executives recognize learning as a growth engine and one of the most strategic investments an organization can make. See why top learning teams at Box, Outreach, and Reddit trust WorkRamp to drive business outcomes and organizational scale.

WorkRamp's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

WorkRamp, Summer 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

WorkRamp

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The All-in-One Learning Platform

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

We've built a flexible learning platform designed for teams to train employees, onboard customers, and scale revenue through better knowledge sharing. It combines course creation, assessments, and customer training in one place focused on driving real business outcomes, not just content hosting.

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

We live in San Francisco and operate remotely as well. After YC we plan to base the company here in San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and the center of our user base. It's where we can best recruit talent and stay connected with our customers in tech and SaaS.

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 WorkRamp YC application?

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