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Founder Profile
If you have more than 1 founder, please kindly copy and create a new group under the 1st Founder.
- Founder Name - ( First Name / Last Name)
- Please tell us about the time you, {founder name}, most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.
- Please tell us in one or two sentences about the most impressive thing other than this startup that you have built or achieved.
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.
- Please provide a link to the product, if relevant
- 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? (List as City A, Country A / City B, Country B.)
Contact
Personal email address of the founder who is filling out this application:
Please enter an email address that you check often and that you will have access to for a long time.
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)
- Who writes code or does other technical work on your product? Was any of it done by a non-founder? Please explain.
- How long have the founders known one another and how did you meet? Have any of the founders not met in person?
- How many founders are on the team? (Fill out this number of founder profiles)
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?
- If no โ When will you have a version people can use?
- If yes โ How many active users or customers do you have? How many are paying? Who is paying you the most, and how much do they pay you?
- Do you have revenue?
- If yes โ We're interested in your revenue over the last several months. (Not cumulative and not GMV).
- 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?
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?
- Who are your competitors? What do you understand about your business that they don't?
- How do or will you make money? How much could you make? (We realize you can't know precisely, but give your best estimate.)
- Where will most of your initial users be located?
- Which category best applies to your company?
Equity
- Have you formed ANY legal entity yet? This may be in the US, in your home country or in another country.
- If yes โ 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.). This might include subsidiary companies, legal entities you formed in other markets to do business, entities you created before a pivot, or legal entities you set up to employ developers or other service providers.
- Have you taken any investment yet?
- If yes โ List any investments your company has received. Include the name of the investor, the amount invested, the premoney valuation / valuation cap, the type of security sold (convertible notes, safes or stock), and the investment date.
- If yes โ How much money have you raised from investors in total in US Dollars?
- If yes โ How much money do you spend per month?
- If yes โ How much money does your company have in the bank now?
- If yes โ How long is your runway? (e.g. 5 months)
- Are you currently fundraising?
- If yes โ Please provide any relevant details about your current fundraise.
- 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).