Covie YC Application

Summer 2021Inactive

Covie went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: FintechInsurance
Team size: 14
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Trent HarveyFounder
Ian LittmanFounder
William DearieFounder

What Covie does

Interacting with insurance across a variety of carriers should be undifferentiated heavy lifting - a piece of infrastructure like Stripe, Twilio, or AWS that "just works"in the background while your business focuses on what makes it different. We provide programmatic building blocks to make this a reality, putting a carrier-neutral API and tooling on top of insurance, starting with policy access (think Plaid, but for your insurance company) and monitoring. Our technology has a variety of use cases that range from insurance verification and tracking, financial advising, compliance & risk management, and marketing/distribution of insurance products.

Covie's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Covie

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Programmatic building blocks for transacting with insurance

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

We provide a carrier-neutral API that surfaces insurance policy data and monitoring in a programmatic way. Our product is like Plaid for insurance, letting companies verify coverage, track policy changes, and embed insurance into their workflows without dealing with the complexity of dozens of carriers.

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

We live in Austin, TX, and the company is based in Austin, TX.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Austin is where all three founders live and work. It's a tech hub with access to strong engineering talent and allows us to move quickly as a founding team.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Covie YC application?

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