Agave YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Agave went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 batch as a B2B 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 2022
Industry: B2B
Team size: 33
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Tom RenoCo-founder
Pooria AzimiFounder
John ZucchiFounder

What Agave does

We're building the financial ops platform for construction, a $12T global industry run by software built 20-40 years ago, much of it on-prem with no APIs and no documentation. We spent 3 years building the rails to read and write across those systems, and we use them to deploy AI for invoicing, expenses, compliance, billing, and more. We have 500+ customers and have been profitable & cashflow positive for over two years. We're backed by Accel and Y Combinator, with investors from Procore, Autodesk, and Plaid. Our three co-founders have worked together for 12+ years, across Graphiq (acquired by Amazon in 2017) and Amazon.

Agave's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Agave, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Agave

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Financial Operations for Construction

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

We're building a financial operations platform specifically for construction companies. Our software integrates with legacy construction financial systems - many without APIs or documentation - and applies AI to automate invoicing, expenses, billing, and compliance tasks. This lets contractors reduce manual work and errors on projects.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the engineering talent and investor community we need, plus it's where we've built our network over years. Being local to our investors and partners helps us move fast and close deals.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Agave YC application?

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