Learn from over 50 Y Combinator applications

Find out how others have previously applied to Y Combinator and create your own draft application to crowdsource feedback before submitting.

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Learn from over 50 Y Combinator applications

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A cloud storage service that lets you save files online and sync them to your devices.

A complete and open DevOps platform, delivered as a single application.

A powerful and intuitive social media management platform complete with scheduling, analytics, and monitoring.

A Stripe-like startup out of Lagos that provides online payment facilities to merchants by way of an API.

A product analytics tool that enables you to capture data on how users interact with your digital product.

Add a work phone number to your existing devices. No need to carry two phones or extra SIM cards.

Seeing Interactive (Own Local)

A local business directory sold through small-town newspapers.

A 5-minute meditation app designed to help busy people stress less, achieve more, and live better.

Creates innovative period products that are better for menstrual health and the environment.

A virtual and hybrid event platform.

A task management software that lets you track, manage and collaborate on your team's everyday tasks

A cloud-based course platform built for computer science and programming classes.

A self-driving service designed for the cities we love.

A platform that allows anyone to build live online trainings with built-in support for payment processing, live classes, and student management.

The note-taking tool that grows with you.

Embedding vision AI in low-cost devices.

Online education in applied sciences.

A health tracking app with personalised food ordering.

SketchDeck is your always ready design team. We give you 24/7 access to high quality, on brand design for all your marketing, sales and communication needs.

Slite gives your team one place to share ideas, collect knowledge and stay in tune across time and space.

Prolific helps you recruit high quality research participants.

A polling chatbot that enables you to share your opinion with a worldwide community and get feedback on your own questions within seconds.

An online system enabling customers to pay at shops with ease, and helping shops satisfy their customers more.

Lead generator for in house talent teams

The easy way to create stunning videos, add subtitles and grow your audience.

Standard Treasury

Offers standard APIs that facilitate businesses in transfers and other transactions with banks.

Mattermark (Referly)

Discover, prospect, and track the world’s fastest-growing companies and investors.

Matches freelance devs with jobs.

A digital communication tool that helps dog walkers validate their services to build trust and long term relationships with pet owners.

A social listening tool, it monitors social media for mentions of your keywords

Relationship Hero (WittyThumbs)

Dating & relationship coaching sessions for individuals and couples.

Bubblin Superbooks

An online café for books.

A company intranet to help you understand who knows what at your company.

A platform that empowers product teams to efficiently run A/B tests.

Student Loan Repayment as an Employee Benefit.

Spreadsheet Magic

Spreadsheets + Zapier

We help graduates choose careers that make a difference.

Collaborative marketplace for writers

A streamlined process to book, shoot, and download your photos.

Payroll-deductible loans, offline to online

Proxino (Taazr)

Detect bugs in live web applications through a statistical inference.

Tripadvisor for Yoga

An online auction site dedicated exclusively to *authentic* designer clothing and accessories.

Go-to destination for the next gen workforce to research companies and careers.

MakeGamesWithUs (Make School)

Helping high school and college students to build games.

Data-driven coaching for founders.

One Month Rails (One Month)

A 30-day online crash course in web development.

AI based fact checking through social media data

derivative/d (Shotput)

We handle everything after manufacturing to the customer.

Turns any content into a language lesson.

AthleteNet (FamilyLeaf)

A website builder for sports teams/leagues.

Run Linux Desktop on (standalone) VR/AR headsets.

Supernote (Metlo)

We make tools for Data Scientists and Engineers.

In-app notification center for web & mobile apps

Parobyte Technologies

Our 2-hr supply prevents stockouts at small stores.

Athens Research

An open-source knowledge graph that helps solve complex problems through making sense of a vast amount of knowledge.

A single API for multi-channel user notifications.

A home screen for your browser. Find your content and files super fast. Just open up a new tab in your browser.

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Company Founders Category Progress Idea Equity Legal Others Curious

Company

If you have a demo, what's the url? Demo can be anything that shows us how the product works. Usually that's a video or screen recording.

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

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

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

Founders

Please enter the url of a 1 minute unlisted (not private) YouTube video introducing the founder(s). This video is an important part of the application. (Follow the Video Guidelines.)

Please tell us about an interesting project, preferably outside of class or work, that two or more of you created together. Include urls if possible.

How long have the founders known one another and how did you meet? Have any of the founders not met in person?

Category

Which category best applies to your company?

Progress

How far along are you?

How long have each of you been working on this? How much of that has been full-time? Please explain.

Are people using your product?

When will you have a prototype or beta?

How many active users or customers do you have? If you have some particularly valuable customers, who are they? If you're building hardware, how many units have you shipped?

Do you have revenue?

We're interested in your revenue over the last several months. (Not cumulative and not GMV).

Anything else you would like us to know regarding your revenue or growth rate?

If you are applying with the same idea as a previous batch, did anything change? If you applied with a different idea, why did you pivot and what did you learn from the last idea?

If you have already participated or committed to participate in an incubator, "accelerator" or "pre-accelerator" program, please tell us about it.

Idea

Why did you pick this idea to work on? Do you have domain expertise in this area? How do you know people need what you're making?

What's new about what you're making? What substitutes do people resort to because it doesn't exist yet (or they don't know about it)?

Who are your competitors, and who might become competitors? Who do you fear most?

What do you understand about your business that other companies in it just don't get?

How do or will you make money? How much could you make?

How will you get users? If your idea is the type that faces a chicken-and-egg problem in the sense that it won't be attractive to users till it has a lot of users (e.g. a marketplace, a dating site, an ad network), how will you overcome that?

Equity

Have you formed ANY legal entity yet?

Please list all legal entities you have and in what state or country each was formed (e.g. Delaware C Corp, Mexican SAPI, Singapore Pvt Ltd, etc.).

Please describe the breakdown of the equity ownership in percentages among the founders, employees and any other stockholders. If there are multiple founders, be sure to give the equity ownership of each founder.

If you have not formed the company yet, describe the planned equity ownership breakdown among the founders, employees and any other proposed stockholders. If there are multiple founders, be sure to give the proposed equity ownership of each founder.

Have you taken any investment yet?

List any investments your company has received. Include the name of the investor, the amount invested, the premoney valuation / valuation cap, and the type of security sold (convertible notes, safes or stock).

How much money do you spend per month?

How much money does your company have in the bank now?

How long is your runway?

Please provide any other relevant information about the structure or formation of the company.

Legal

Are any of the founders covered by noncompetes or intellectual property agreements that overlap with your project? If so, please explain.

Who writes code, or does other technical work on your product? Was any of it done by a non-founder? Please explain.

Is there anything else we should know about your company?

Others

If you had any other ideas you considered applying with, please list them. One may be something we've been waiting for. Often when we fund people it's to do something they list here and not in the main application.

Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered.

Curious

What convinced you to apply to Y Combinator? Did someone encourage you to apply?

How did you hear about Y Combinator?