Conduit YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Conduit went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2B
Team size: 15
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Cole RubinFounder
Punn KamFounder

What Conduit does

Conduit is the leading AI agent platform for hospitality operations. Operators can create, test, and run AI agents on Conduit's harness purpose built for hospitality. On-brand agents handles the full guest journey, converting inquiries into bookings and driving upsell revenue, then runs internal operations and surfaces insights for leadership. All connected to the systems operators already use. Trusted by over 1000+ global hospitality brands across 120+ countries.

Conduit's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Conduit, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Conduit

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Agents for Hospitality

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

We build a platform that lets hospitality operators create, test, and run AI agents tailored to their brand. These agents handle tasks from guest inquiries to booking conversions, upselling, and internal operations, all integrated with the hotel's existing systems. The goal is to automate and improve the entire guest journey and surface actionable insights for leadership.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will continue to be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team and many hospitality tech customers are located. It's where we can recruit engineers and connect with users and partners easily.

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 Conduit YC application?

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