YesGraph YC Application

Winter 2015Acquired

YesGraph went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2014

Founders

Ivan KiriginFounder/CEO

What YesGraph does

YesGraph helps your app grow by recommending exactly who a user should invite. We can help boost the performance of referral and invite flows in your app or web site. We use machine learning and social graph analysis -- a lot like "People You May Know" on LinkedIn!

YesGraph's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

YesGraph, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

YesGraph

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Recommends who a user should invite to an app

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

We built a service that integrates with apps to recommend exactly which people a user should invite, boosting referral and invitation effectiveness. It uses machine learning and social graph analysis to highlight the best invite targets, similar to LinkedIn's "People You May Know" feature but focused on helping apps grow through referrals.

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

We live in Palo Alto, CA and plan to keep the company based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in Palo Alto puts us at the center of tech innovation and close to potential customers and investors, which helps us move faster and build relationships that are critical at this stage.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real YesGraph YC application?

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