Coast YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Coast went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2B
Team size: 35
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Spencer LevittFounder
Austin PagerFounder

What Coast does

The first AI-powered demo platform designed to sell, market and implement technical products with ease. Our visual platform makes APIs more accessible and accelerates commercialization, enabling high-impact digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.

Coast's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Coast, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Coast

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Demo Platform for API-First Companies

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

We built a demo platform that lets companies with API-first products create interactive, visual demos without coding. It helps sales, marketing, and implementation teams show off complex technical products more clearly, making APIs more accessible and speeding up enterprise adoption.

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

We live in New York, NY. After YC, we'll keep the company based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose New York because that's where we and our team are, and it puts us close to many of the large enterprises we target. There's strong demand here to accelerate API adoption and commercialization, and we're embedded in the local tech ecosystem.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Coast YC application?

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