Asteroid YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Asteroid went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 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 2025
Industry: B2B
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

David MlcochFounder
Joe HewettFounder

What Asteroid does

Asteroid builds and hosts AI browser agents for back-office tasks. With guardrails, evaluations, and human oversight, we deliver enterprise-grade reliability across millions of operations, even in regulated industries. Companies can build agents themselves or rely on us to deliver and maintain them.

Asteroid's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Asteroid, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Asteroid

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Browser Workforce for Operations Teams

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

We build and host AI browser agents that automate back-office tasks. Our platform lets operations teams at enterprises create and run browser-based bots with guardrails and human oversight to handle complex workflows even in regulated industries reliably.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the technical talent and our initial customers are located. We want to stay close to both for fast iteration and support.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Asteroid YC application?

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