Artisan YC Application
Artisan went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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
- Winter 2024
- Industry
- B2B
- Team size
- 37
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2023
Founders
Jaspar Carmichael-JackFounder
What Artisan does
At Artisan, we’re building real AI employees - not copilots, not assistants, but autonomous teammates. Our first, Ava, is an AI BDR. She finds and researches leads, writes emails in customers’ tone of voice, runs outbound sequences, self-optimizes, and manages email deliverability infrastructure. She learns, adapts, and improves over time - just like a human would. Human team members use Artisan as their primary working platform, replacing a sprawling stack of sales tools, and have Artisans working alongside them. We went through Y Combinator (W24) and have raised $35M+ from top investors. We’re at $6M+ ARR, with hundreds of customers including Remote, Quora, and SumUp. We’re currently working on Ava 2.0, pushing the boundaries of what an AI employee can do. And we're hiring.
Artisan's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Artisan, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Artisan
AI employees starting with an AI BDR
We're building AI employees that work autonomously alongside humans rather than assisting them. Our first product, Ava, is an AI business development rep that finds leads, researches them, writes emails in the customer's voice, sends sequences, optimizes performance, and manages deliverability - all without human intervention. Teams use Artisan as their main platform, replacing multiple sales tools with one AI teammate.
We live and are based in San Francisco, CA, and will continue to be based here after YC.
San Francisco is where our best sales and AI engineering talent are. It lets us stay close to our early customers and investors, and be part of the B2B SaaS ecosystem.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Artisan YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Artisan's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Artisan would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Artisan in?
Artisan was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2024 batch.
Who founded Artisan?
Artisan was founded by Jaspar Carmichael-Jack.
What does Artisan do?
AI employees called Artisans, starting with an AI BDR
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Artisan's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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