Cohesive YC Application

Spring 2025Active

Cohesive went through Y Combinator in the Spring 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: Spring 2025
Industry: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Kevin ZhangFounder
Nam NguyenFounder

What Cohesive does

Cohesive is the agentic CRM for blue collar businesses like janitorial, pressure washing, landscaping, HVAC, and pest control businesses. Cohesive fully automates sales and marketing outreach to local businesses and property owners in the service area, helping local service businesses grow even while servicing clients in the field.

Cohesive's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Cohesive, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cohesive

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The agentic CRM for blue-collar services

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

We're building a CRM tailored to blue-collar local service businesses like janitorial, landscaping, HVAC, and pest control. Cohesive fully automates sales and marketing outreach by acting as a proactive agent reaching out to local businesses and property owners, so our customers can grow even while they're in the field servicing clients. No other CRM targets this market with automation focused on outbound local outreach like this.

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

We live in New York, NY. After YC, the company will remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live in New York, and it's where we know local service businesses best. Staying here keeps us close to our early users and the sales channels we understand. We want to build something grounded in real local business behavior which we see every day here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cohesive YC application?

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