Able YC Application

Winter 2020Acquired

Able went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 batch as a Consumer company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2020
Industry: ConsumerJob and Career Services
Team size: 50
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2020

Founders

Ravish AgrawalCo-Founder & CEO
Siddharth SrivastavaFounder
Svatantra KumarFounder

What Able does

Able is a career app for pre and early professionals. Professionals can build their profiles, apply for jobs, prepare for interviews and get upskilled with our training programs.

Able's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Able, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Able

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

India's Largest Placement Platform for Early Professionals

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

We built a career app specifically for pre and early professionals in India. It lets them build profiles, apply to jobs directly, prepare for interviews, and access training programs to upskill. Our product combines job placement and skill development in one platform.

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

We live in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, and the company would continue to be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Bengaluru is where all three founders live and is the hub for tech talent and startups in India. It is the natural base for our team and operations.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Able YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Able's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Able would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.