Bud YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Bud 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: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Kevin LuFounder
Bach TranFounder

What Bud does

Bud is an agent with a computer. You can use it from web, text, or telegram. Bud can build & code, fully use a browser, do professional work (research, slides, docs, excel), use skills, and run completely autonomously.

Bud's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Bud

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Agent with a computer

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

We are building Bud, an autonomous agent that acts as a personal assistant you can interact with via web, text, or Telegram. Bud can browse the web, create and edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and do research or professional tasks independently. It uses coding and browsing capabilities to perform complex workflows without human guidance.

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 now and will remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in San Francisco because it's where we live and the main tech ecosystem we engage with. Bud requires close engineering collaboration and access to technical talent, which SF offers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Bud YC application?

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