Bond

Bond YC Application

Spring 2025Active

Bond went through Y Combinator in the Spring 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
Spring 2025
Industry
B2BProductivity
Team size
3
Status
Active
Launched
2025

Founders

  • Chloe Samaha
    Chloe SamahaFounder

What Bond does

Bond is an AI Chief of Staff that gives CEOs and busy executives real-time visibility into what’s happening across the company and tells them what to focus on. Saving execs 10+ hours a week.

Bond's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Bond, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Bond

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Your AI Chief of Staff

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

We built Bond, an AI Chief of Staff that gives busy executives real-time visibility across their company and tells them what to focus on. It saves them over 10 hours a week by consolidating critical info and surfacing actionable insights automatically.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and Bond will be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is, and it's the center of tech and startup activity, making it easier to hire, connect with partners, and serve 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Bond YC application?

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

What YC batch was Bond in?

Bond was part of the Y Combinator Spring 2025 batch.

Who founded Bond?

Bond was founded by Chloe Samaha.

What does Bond do?

Your AI Chief of Staff

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Bond's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

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