Apten YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Apten went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Daniel HoFounder
Roshan KumaraswamyFounder

What Apten does

Apten is an omni-channel AI agent that engages and nurtures leads across text, call, email, and webchat. We help enterprises in consumer services convert more leads.

Apten's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Apten, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Apten

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Omnichannel AI agents engaging leads

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

We build an AI agent that talks to leads across SMS, voice calls, email, and webchat. The agent helps consumer service enterprises convert more leads by automating follow-up and lead nurturing on multiple channels where prospects actually respond.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and will base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco puts us close to customers and AI talent. It's where we live and where the startup ecosystem supports what we're building.

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 Apten YC application?

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