CAPSULE YC Application

Summer 2022Inactive

CAPSULE went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 batch as a Consumer 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 2022
Industry: ConsumerApparel and Cosmetics
Team size: 4
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2022

Founders

Michele Van RuitenFounder
Kelsey PedersenFounder

What CAPSULE does

CAPSULE is a mobile app that makes it easy to save and buy the things you find on any social media platform. Just snap a screenshot of anything you like, from any platform, and we search the entire internet to instantly give you shoppable links. Instead of searching hundreds of websites and sifting through thousands of products on your own, CAPSULE lets you find inspiration from anywhere and uses advanced machine learning to return results that feel like magic.

CAPSULE's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

CAPSULE, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

CAPSULE

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Buy anything you find on social media

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

We've built a mobile app that lets you snap a screenshot of any product you see on any social media platform, then instantly returns shoppable links from across the web. Instead of hunting through multiple sites or guessing what the product is called, our AI and computer vision search the internet to find exact or very close matches fast.

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 would stay here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and work, close to tech talent, investors, and early e-commerce innovators. It's the natural place for us to remain as we scale.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real CAPSULE YC application?

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