Anima App YC Application

Summer 2018Active

Anima App went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 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: Summer 2018
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 20
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Avishay CohenFounder/CEO
Or ArbelFounder/CTO
Michal CohenFounder/COO

What Anima App does

In the space of AI coding agents, Anima bridges the LLM design gap. With over 1.5 million installs, Anima is the first option for professional design, product, and R&D teams going from design to code. Thanks to On-brand Vibe-coding, anyone in the team can build fast without breaking your look and feel. No Figma skills required. Anima generates clean and developer-friendly code. So your prototypes could also be used for handoff. Three ways to start - Figma to Code → Instantly generate clean React, HTML, or Vue code from Figma designs. - Website to Code (Cloning / Remixing) → Import any live website and turn it into editable code. - Prompt to Design (coming soon) → Generate high-end UI directly from natural language prompts, automatically styled to your brand. Key features - Start at AnimaApp.com to bring your design or your website to Anima - Chat in Anima playground to iterate on your project's code while staying on-brand - Handoff playground link to engineering - Or, download code to continue with Clause code ot Cursor - Or, publish a public link to share with clients or stakeholders

Anima App's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Anima App, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Anima App

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Design to Code & On-brand Vibe-coding

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

We build a tool that turns design files from Figma directly into clean React, HTML, or Vue code. It also imports live websites as editable code, and soon will generate UI from natural language prompts. Our focus is to help design, product, and engineering teams move faster without sacrificing brand consistency or code quality.

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

We are based in New York, NY, USA and intend to keep the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live and work in New York, where our team is located. The local ecosystem aligns well with our B2B focus on design and engineering teams at companies that rely on strong brand and prototyping workflows.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Anima App YC application?

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