Daily YC Application

Winter 2016Active

Daily went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2016 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 2016
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 126
Status: Active
Launched: 2015

Founders

Kwindla Hultman KramerFounder

What Daily does

Daily is real-time voice, video, and AI for developers. Our cross-platform SDKs and global infrastructure enable ultra-low latency, highest quality experiences for developers building real-time voice and video AI agents. Our platform also supports integration of traditional voice/video calls, in addition to AI agent experiences.

Daily's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Daily, Winter 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Daily

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Conversational voice and multimodal AI platform

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

We build real-time voice, video, and AI tools for developers. Our cross-platform SDKs and global infrastructure let developers integrate ultra-low latency voice and video, combined with AI agents, into their apps. Our platform supports both AI-driven conversations and traditional calls so developers can build apps that mix human and AI interactions in real time.

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

We're based in San Francisco, CA, with a distributed remote team spread across the US. After YC, we'll continue to operate out of San Francisco with remote engineers.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco remains the best place for us due to the startup ecosystem and access to technical talent. The team also works effectively remote, so we maintain flexibility.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Daily YC application?

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