Cedar YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Cedar 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Jesse LiFounder
Isabelle IlyiaFounder

What Cedar does

Cedar helps the fastest growing GTM teams ramp up new reps faster & spread top rep playbook throughout the team. AE's at Cursor, Corgi, Pylon, and Warp use Cedar to save 75% of admin time on CRM updates, follow-ups, and deal strategy. Backed by YC with an ex-Figma, Notion, and Intuit team, Cedar was built by spending hundreds of hours with the best AE's in industry - we've built a playbook for the fastest growing teams and founders ramping up sales, and we'll use it to automate the busy work so you can sell more, better.

Cedar's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cedar

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Execute the best sales playbook

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

We built Cedar to help fast-growing go-to-market teams ramp new account executives faster and spread their best sales playbook across the team. Our product automates admin tasks like CRM updates, follow-ups, and deal strategy so reps sell more and spend less time on busy work. AE's at companies like Cursor, Corgi, Pylon, and Warp use Cedar to reclaim 75% of their admin time.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based here because San Francisco is where the fastest growing sales teams are, and it lets us work closely with the AE's we've built Cedar for.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cedar YC application?

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