Compgun
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Compgun was a San Francisco Y Combinator Winter 2016 company founded by Jake Seip and Tim Sze (a nod in name to Mailgun) that built cloud-based sales commission software - 'the first sales commission software that everyone can love.' The self-serve SaaS let companies build, test, and administer commission structures for salespeople, generating individualized commission statements and KPIs with a click, uploading data from various sources and integrating with Salesforce, replacing the spreadsheets and email most companies relied on. It launched in beta in Q2 2015, counted customers such as Optimizely and Intercom, and charged $25-35 per user per month.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Beta launch; YC application
Compgun launched its sales commission platform in beta in Q2 2015, signing customers such as Optimizely and Intercom.
- YC W16
Compgun joined Y Combinator's Winter 2016 batch with its self-serve commission software charging $25-35 per user per month.
- Shut down
PitchBook records Compgun as Out of Business effective December 8, 2017, after raising $120K (accelerator round, March 2016).
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
Raised approximately $120,000 in a March 2016 accelerator round from Y Combinator.
- 02
Ceased operations in December 2017; no public bankruptcy or acquisition record exists.
- 03
No audited loss figure was publicly disclosed.