Clarum YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Clarum went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BFinance and Accounting
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Anton OtanerFounder & CEO

What Clarum does

Clarum automates diligence, monitoring, and reporting for private market investors. Our AI agents learn how each firm works and automate their process end to end. Everything is individualized (checklists, templates, scoring models) and adapts as your process changes. Clarum also acts as a self-updating knowledge base across every document your firm has ever seen, connecting dots no analyst could.

Clarum's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Clarum, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Clarum

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI agents for private market diligence

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

We build AI agents tailored for private market investors that automate diligence, monitoring, and reporting end to end. Our product learns how each firm works and adapts checklists, templates, and scoring models as processes change. It also acts as a self-updating knowledge base across every document a firm has seen, connecting insights no analyst could.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company will be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where most of our potential customers and talent are concentrated, so it's the best place for Clarum to grow.

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 Clarum YC application?

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