Clover YC Application

Summer 2020Acquired

Clover went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2020

Founders

Tom GiannattasioFounder
Adam ChristFounder

What Clover does

We built a new style of text editor from the ground up to better support creative thinking. Clover lets you explode traditional, linear documents into an infinite "surface" for a more intuitive, visual way of note-taking, brainstorming, mind-mapping, and managing tasks.

Clover's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Clover, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Clover

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

All-in-one notebook for creatives

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

We built Clover, a new kind of text editor that breaks away from linear documents. It creates an infinite canvas for brainstorming, note-taking, mind-mapping, and managing tasks visually. Our product supports creative workflows that traditional note apps don't.

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

We live in New York and will keep the company based there after YC, though we work remotely as a small, distributed team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live in New York because it's home. Being remote lets us collaborate flexibly while staying focused on building our product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Clover YC application?

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