Arketa YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Arketa went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 55
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Rachel Lea FishmanFounder
Josh ArcherFounder

What Arketa does

All in one platform for online and in-person classes, video on-demand, courses and website hosting.

Arketa's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Arketa, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Arketa

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Everything for your fitness or wellness business

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

We build an all-in-one platform for fitness and wellness businesses to run online and in-person classes, video on-demand, courses, and host their websites. Our product handles scheduling, payments, content delivery, and customer management in one place.

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

We live in New York, NY, and plan to keep the company based here after YC with a remote-friendly setup.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where we started and where our initial team is located. It also puts us close to many fitness and wellness businesses, our customers.

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 Arketa YC application?

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