Bento YC Application

Summer 2020Inactive

Bento 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: B2BProductivity
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Emily WangFounder
Jason HochCo-founder/CTO

What Bento does

Bento empowers b2b SaaS companies to give customers great in-product onboarding, 10x faster than building it in house. From set-up, to trying out a new workflow, Bento's onboarding guides give users a home base to track progress, pull in a co-worker to help (looking at you, IT), and go back to the steps they've done before.

Bento's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Bento

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

In product customer activation

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

Bento helps B2B SaaS companies deliver in-product onboarding faster than building their own. Our guides walk users through setup and workflows, let them track progress, invite coworkers for help, and revisit past steps.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and would keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco puts us close to SaaS founders and product teams who need better onboarding. It's also where we live and build our network.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Bento YC application?

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