Zenbox YC Application

Summer 2011Inactive

Zenbox went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2011
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Sean GroveFounder/CEO
Kev ZettlerFounder

What Zenbox does

Zenbox is a browser extension that connects all of your SaaS services.Open an email, and Zenbox pulls in your customer information from dozens of services right into the sidebar.

Zenbox's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Zenbox, Summer 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Zenbox

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Connects customer data from SaaS inside email

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

We built a browser extension that pulls customer information from dozens of SaaS apps like Mailchimp, Stripe, Shopify, and Salesforce into a sidebar when you open an email. It saves users from switching between multiple dashboards to get customer context during email workflows.

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

We live in San Francisco and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco puts us close to many SaaS companies and users, and it's where we already live. Being local helps with networking and recruiting.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Zenbox YC application?

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