Artifact YC Application

Summer 2020Inactive

Artifact went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 batch as a Consumer 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: ConsumerContent
Team size: 10
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2020

Founders

Ross ChaninFounder
Moncef BiazFounder
Martin GouyFounder
George QuraishiCo-founder / COO

What Artifact does

Artifact makes it easy to record stories with the most important people in your life. We set them up with a professional interviewer through our marketplace and we make it easy, from scheduling interviews to delivering a polished edit that wouldn’t sound out of place on NPR. We then host their stories in shareable, interactive listening experiences.

Artifact's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Artifact

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Personal podcasts with the people in your life

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

We built Artifact to make it easy for people to record conversations and stories with important people in their lives. Our platform connects users with professional interviewers through a marketplace, schedules and records interviews, and delivers polished podcast-quality episodes hosted in an interactive, shareable format. Essentially, we're turning personal histories into beautiful audio experiences anyone can create and share.

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

We're based in San Francisco, CA, with a remote-friendly setup across a small team of about 10 people. After YC, we'll keep our headquarters in San Francisco and continue supporting remote work.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the talent and culture suited for building consumer content products. We live there now and it allows us to access both engineering and creative resources essential to Artifact's growth.

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 Artifact YC application?

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