Corgi Insurance YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Corgi Insurance went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 batch as a Fintech 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 2024
Industry: FintechInsurance
Team size: 100
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Nico LaquaFounder
Emily YuanFounder

What Corgi Insurance does

Corgi is a full-stack insurance carrier building better, faster insurance products for startups. We’re not a broker, so we underwrite and issue policies directly, with fewer handoffs and less friction. Cutting out intermediaries lets us tailor coverage to how your company actually operates and price risk more efficiently.

Corgi Insurance's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Corgi Insurance, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Corgi Insurance

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-driven full-stack insurance for startups

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

We are building an insurance carrier that underwrites and issues policies directly to startups. Our product removes brokers and intermediaries, cutting friction and handoffs. This lets us create insurance tailored to how startups operate and price risk more accurately and efficiently.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here now and will remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our customers and talent are concentrated. We're deeply embedded in the startup ecosystem here, which helps us build and test products faster.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Corgi Insurance YC application?

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