Casetext YC Application

Summer 2013Acquired

Casetext went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2013 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 2013
Industry: B2BLegal
Team size: 50
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2013

Founders

Jake HellerFounder/CEO

What Casetext does

Casetext, the most widely used A.I. legal research technology, has been adopted across the legal market from the largest Am Law 100 law firms to solo practices. Its award-winning technology offers both conventional search functionality and its CARA A.I. powered contextual search, focuses on the context of your research to help you find on-point authorities faster. Founded by a team of former litigators from top law firms, as well as Ph.D. data scientists and leading A.I. engineers, Casetext helps legal researchers find the best cases, faster, including many that they would otherwise miss. For more information, visit or contact our team at.

Casetext's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Casetext, Summer 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Casetext

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

We make the world's laws free and understandable.

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

We built Casetext, a legal research platform that combines traditional search with CARA, an A.I. powered contextual search that helps lawyers find relevant case law faster. It surfaces important cases users might miss by understanding context rather than keywords alone.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company is based there with remote team members.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the tech talent and access to legal tech customers we need. We can recruit and iterate faster here than anywhere else.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Casetext YC application?

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