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Late startup application form at YC

Application general details: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply

Application form: https://apply.ycombinator.com/app/edit

Application deadline: https://apply.ycombinator.com

Company

  1. Company name
  2. Company url
  3. 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. → https://youtu.be/jFJSZfpu0fM
  4. Please provide a link to the product, if relevant
  5. Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less → #9 (comment 1155674595)
  6. What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do → #9 (comment 1155674595)
  7. Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

Contact & Founders

  1. Personal email address of the founder who is filling out this application:
  2. 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 (guidelines) → #10 (closed)
  3. Who writes code, or does other technical work on your product? Was any of it done by a non-founder? Please explain.
  4. How many founders are on the team?
  5. Are you looking for a cofounder?

Progress

  1. How far along are you?
  2. How long have each of you been working on this? How much of that has been full-time? Please explain
  3. Are people using your product?
  4. Do you have revenue?
  5. 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?
  6. If you have already participated or committed to participate in an incubator, "accelerator" or "pre-accelerator" program, please tell us about it.

Idea

  1. 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? → #9 (comment 1169535076)
  2. Who are your competitors? What do you understand about your business that they don't? → #9 (comment 1169535076)
  3. How do or will you make money? How much could you make? → #9 (comment 1169535076)
  4. Where will most of your initial users be located?
  5. Which category best applies to your company? (dropdown)

Equity

  1. Have you formed ANY legal entity yet?
  2. Have you taken any investment yet?
  3. Are you currently fundraising?
  4. 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 and founder title (e.g. CEO) → #9 (comment 1170042586)

Ideas

  1. 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 → #9 (comment 1169809552).

Curious

  1. What convinced you to apply to Y Combinator? Did someone encourage you to apply? Have you been to any YC events?
  2. How did you hear about Y Combinator?
Edited by Konstantin Narkhov