AnnieCannons YC Application

Summer 2018Active

AnnieCannons went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 batch as a Education 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: Education
Team size: 14
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Laura HackneyFounder

What AnnieCannons does

AnnieCannons (AC) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to training survivors of human trafficking and gender-based violence to be programmers, giving them both the economic and technological empowerment to invent solutions to overcome the hardships they have survived, and the capacity to support themselves and their families.

AnnieCannons's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

AnnieCannons

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Connecting Survivors to Careers in Tech

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

We provide software and training to survivors of trafficking and gender-based violence to become programmers and find tech jobs. Our platform trains students in coding skills and supports their entry into the tech workforce.

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

We live in New York City and Oakland, and after YC we would base the company in those locations.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based where our team and community are rooted. Our work is deeply tied to survivor communities in NYC and Oakland, so those locations align with our mission and impact.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real AnnieCannons YC application?

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