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Great Question

YC W21

San Francisco, US · Founded 2020 · 41 employees · Hiring · 24 known investors

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Great Question is a UX research platform that combines participant recruitment, study management, mixed-method research capabilities, and AI-powered analysis in a single system. It serves product managers, designers, UX researchers, and research operations teams across startups and enterprises seeking to consolidate fragmented research workflows.

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Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W21)

Great Question was founded in 2020 by Ned Dwyer and PJ Murray.

NDNed Dwyer
Ned Dwyerin𝕏FounderNed Dwyer previously founded Elto, which was acquired by GoDaddy. He is now building Great Question, a customer research platform.
PMPJ Murray
PJ MurrayinCTO and CofounderPJ Murray is a software engineer with over a decade of development experience, primarily in Ruby on Rails and working with early-stage startups. He previously founded and sold Elto, and is now CTO and founder of Great Question.

Investors · 24

FundersClubSan Francisco · $250K – $5M
ImmeasurableLos Angeles · $25K – $100K
Inovia CapitalMontreal · $250K – $8M
NOMO VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $750Kvia Rahul Prakash · inferred
Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K
Amplify.LAreportedLos Angeles · $500K – $5M
Andreessen HorowitzreportedMenlo Park · $500K – $50M
AV8 VenturesreportedPalo Alto · $500K – $10M
B Capital GroupreportedManhattan Beach · $10M – $50M
BAM VenturesreportedLos Angeles · $100K – $1M
Bonfire VenturesreportedLos Angeles · $2M – $4M
CharacterreportedMilwaukee · $2M
Eniac VenturesreportedNew York · $1.2M
FCVCreportedSan Francisco
Fika VenturesreportedCulver City · $250K – $2M
GreycroftreportedNew York · $100K – $5M
January CapitalreportedSan Francisco · $2M – $50M
Kohala VenturesreportedSan Francisco
KW Angel FundreportedNew York · $10K
Pitbull VenturesreportedLos Angeles
Rebel FundreportedSan Francisco · $100K – $5M
S28 CapitalreportedSan Francisco · $1M – $5M
Twenty Two VenturesreportedPalo Alto · $50K – $250K

Also in the syndicate · 1

SoftBank Investment Advisers

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$13M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2021–2026

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Competitors · 9

by search overlap
UserTesting344 shared keywordsUserTesting provides a human insight platform that helps Product, Marketing, Digital, and CX teams at enterprises collect and analyze real human feedback to validate decisions and improve customer experiences. The platform combines participant networks, AI-driven insights, and expert services to enable organizations to understand customer reactions and behavior.
Maze343 shared keywordsMaze provides a research-grade AI platform that helps teams conduct customer research and gather user insights. The platform is used by over 60,000 teams to understand customer behavior and inform product decisions.
User Interviews328 shared keywordsUser Interviews provides a research platform with tools for managing panels, teams, and studies, including participant databases, permissions, reports, and governance features. It serves enterprise research and research operations teams running user research at scale.
Contentsquare323 shared keywordsContentsquare offers a digital experience analytics platform that uses AI to help teams understand customer behavior across websites and apps through heatmaps, zoning analysis, journey mapping, and session insights. It serves marketing, analytics, and e-commerce teams looking to improve engagement, conversion, and retention.
Dovetail322 shared keywordsDovetail is a customer intelligence platform that centralizes and analyzes fragmented customer feedback from multiple sources using AI to generate actionable insights across organizations.
Looppanel255 shared keywordsLooppanel offers an AI-enabled platform for analyzing customer research and feedback, helping teams organize interviews and surface insights faster. It serves product and UX research teams, including enterprise organizations.
SurveyMonkey170 shared keywordsSurveyMonkey is an online platform for creating surveys and forms to run market research, customer satisfaction, event registration, and employee feedback programs. It offers AI-assisted survey building, expert templates, a global respondent panel, analytics tools, and integrations for individuals, teams, and enterprise organizations.
Qualaroo ,166 shared keywordsQualaroo enables marketers to collect feedback and insights directly from website visitors to understand their needs and pain points. The platform helps businesses identify optimization opportunities that can drive revenue growth from their existing traffic.
SURVICATE148 shared keywordsSurvicate offers a Microsoft Teams integration for its survey and customer feedback platform, letting teams collect and share Voice of Customer insights. Its Research Assistant feature analyzes survey responses to surface key themes.

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In the news

Great Question: Funding, Team & Investors | Startup Introsstartupintros.com · Jul 2026Great Question Raises $13 Million Series A to Expand AI-Driven UX Research Platform - VC Tavernvctavern.com · Mar 2026Great Question Funding | <$5 Million Revenue | Complete Analysis | Extruct AIextruct.ai · Jul 2021Great Question gets $2.5M seed round to make customer research easier – TechCrunchtechcrunch.com · Jul 2021Great Question - Make customer research a part of every product release | Product Huntproducthunt.com · Jun 2021

Frequently asked questions

What does Great Question do?
Great Question is a UX research platform that combines participant recruitment, study management, mixed-method research capabilities, and AI-powered analysis in a single system. It serves product managers, designers, UX researchers, and research operations teams across startups and enterprises seeking to consolidate fragmented research workflows.
Who founded Great Question?
Great Question was founded by Ned Dwyer, PJ Murray in 2020.
Who are Great Question's investors?
Great Question's investors include FundersClub, Immeasurable, Inovia Capital, NOMO Ventures, Y Combinator, Amplify.LA, Andreessen Horowitz, AV8 Ventures and 15 more.
How much funding has Great Question raised?
Great Question has disclosed $13M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.
Where is Great Question headquartered?
Great Question is headquartered in San Francisco, US.