Clearspace YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Clearspace went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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: Winter 2023
Industry: Consumer
Team size: 7
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Royce BranningCofounder & CEO
Oliver HillFounder

What Clearspace does

Giving families their time back with tools to understand and control how their time is spent online.

Clearspace's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Clearspace, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Clearspace

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Less screen time, more life.

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

We build tools that help families understand how they spend time online and give them control to reduce screen time. It's designed to help parents and kids regain time together by making digital habits visible and manageable.

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

We are based in San Francisco and will remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the talent and startup ecosystem we need. We live here and want to build locally to stay close to our early users and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Clearspace YC application?

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