Dart YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Dart went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 10
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Milad MalekFounder
Zack SwaffordFounder

What Dart does

Dart is a fully-featured project management tool that lets you chat with AI to create tasks, plan roadmaps, generate reports, and handle any other PM work. You can then use customizable agents to complete work across every role. Thousands of teams use Dart in order to chat with their tasks, plan better, and eliminate regular PM chores from their schedule, freeing up seven hours per week to focus on other work.

Dart's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Dart, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Dart

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The only truly AI-native project management tool

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

We are building Dart, a project management tool where teams chat directly with AI to create tasks, plan roadmaps, generate reports, and automate PM work. Our product includes customizable AI agents that complete work across roles, freeing teams from routine project management chores.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA. After YC, the company will remain based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco keeps us close to a strong tech community and potential customers, which helps us iterate quickly and build a product that deeply fits user needs.

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 Dart YC application?

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