Zuddl YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Zuddl went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2B
Team size: 120
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Bharath VarmaFounder
Vedha SayyaparajuFounder

What Zuddl does

Zuddl is a modular platform for events and webinars that helps event marketers plan and execute events that drive growth. Event teams from global organizations like Microsoft, Google, ServiceNow, Zylo, Postman, TransPerfect and the United Nations trust Zuddl. Our modular approach to event management lets B2B marketers and conferences organizers decide which components they need to build the perfect event and scale their event program. Zuddl is an outcome-oriented platform with a focus on flexibility, and is more partner, less vendor. FUNDING Zuddl being a part Y-Combinator 2020 batch has raised $13.35 million in Series A funding led by Alpha Wave Incubation and Qualcomm Ventures with participation from our existing investors GrowX ventures and Waveform Ventures.

Zuddl's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Zuddl, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Zuddl

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Modular platform for events and webinars

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

We are building a modular event and webinar platform that lets event marketers and conference organizers pick and choose components to create events that drive growth. It's focused on flexibility and outcomes, unlike traditional bulky vendors. Users include global event teams who need to scale and customize their event programs.

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

I live in San Francisco and Vedha is primarily in Telangana, India; our company operates both from San Francisco and Telangana with a remote team spread across locations.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our team is distributed because event marketing is global and our founders have roots in both the US and India. This also lets us tap into engineering talent in India while being close to customers in the US.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Zuddl YC application?

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