Application YC di Wildfire

Summer 2017Acquired

Wildfire ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Summer 2017 come azienda Consumer. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.

Batch YC: Summer 2017
Settore: ConsumerSocial
Dimensione team: 3
Stato: Acquired
Lanciata: 2017

Founder

Hriday KemburuFounder/CEO
Vinay A. RameshFounder

Cosa fa Wildfire

We started Wildfire during our senior year at UC Berkeley as a safety alert app for colleges. Wildfire quickly grew beyond a campus safety tool to a social news app, which empowered people to spread the word quickly to their community when something significant happened nearby. Over six years, we've sent 65 million alerts to nearly 1 million users.

Application YC di Wildfire, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

Wildfire, batch Summer 2017. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Wildfire

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Social news app

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

We built Wildfire to start as a safety alert app for college campuses. It lets people send and receive real-time alerts about incidents happening nearby. Over time, it shifted into a social news app focused on quickly spreading important information within local communities. People use it to stay informed about what's happening around them in a way that general news or social networks don't cover effectively.

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

We live in San Francisco, and we plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we're currently based and where our network and resources are strongest. It's also where a lot of early users and tech talent are accessible, so it made sense to continue here for YC and beyond.

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Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di Wildfire?

No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di Wildfire (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Wildfire si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.