Zeplin YC Application

Summer 2015Active

Zeplin went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2015
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 140
Status: Active
Launched: 2015

Founders

Pelin KenezFounder/CEO
Ismail CeylanFounder/Software Developer
Merih AkarFounder/Developer
Berk ÇebiFounder

What Zeplin does

Zeplin is an organized workspace to publish finalized designs, where the entire team can collaborate to ship beautiful products together. We were founded in 2014 and today we are honored to support 5+ million users from thousands of product teams including Apple, Starbucks, Salesforce, Amazon, Microsoft, Audi and many more. We’re a Y Combinator startup, also backed by amazing investors like Elad Gil, Mike Maples, Kevin Hale. We’re a distributed crew with offices in San Francisco, Istanbul and London. We're Hiring! Please apply directly on Zeplin's job site:

Zeplin's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Zeplin, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Zeplin

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Deliver on the Promise of Design

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

We are building an organized workspace where product teams can publish finalized designs and collaborate effectively. Zeplin bridges the gap between design and engineering by providing a shared platform that helps teams ship products together without confusion or rework.

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

We live distributed across San Francisco, CA; London, England; and Istanbul, Turkey. After YC, the company will keep a distributed structure with those main offices.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We have founders and team members distributed in these locations due to our backgrounds and talent availability. Staying distributed allows us access to great designers and engineers globally while serving international customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Zeplin YC application?

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