Concourse YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Concourse went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BFinance and Accounting
Team size: 7
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Matthieu HafemeisterFounder
Ted MichaelsFounder

What Concourse does

Concourse is building AI agents for corporate finance teams. Concourse works alongside finances teams to assist in day-to-day operations by taking on the most manual and time consuming work. Core to the platform is an AI analyst tailor-built for finance teams that is available at any hour of the day, accessible via natural language, and built with full connectivity to a company’s existing financial systems. Concourse enables team members to more effectively retrieve and analyze data, generate charts and reports, and answer ad-hoc questions.

Concourse's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Concourse

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Agents for corporate finance teams

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

We're building AI agents that sit alongside corporate finance teams to automate their most manual, time-consuming tasks. Our AI analyst is tailored for finance, works 24/7, answers questions in natural language, and connects directly to a company's financial systems. It helps teams pull data, generate reports, and analyze finances without the usual delays.

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

We live in New York, NY and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our team is already here, and New York is where most of our early users and finance customers are. Staying local keeps us close to the domain and our network.

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 Concourse YC application?

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