Demodesk YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Demodesk went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 25
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Alex PoppFounder
Veronika WaxFounder

What Demodesk does

Demodesk provides AI-powered sales meeting software that summarizes your calls, automates CRM management, and delivers personalized, actionable sales coaching.

Demodesk's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Demodesk, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Demodesk

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-powered sales coaching

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

We built a sales meeting platform that uses AI to record calls, summarize them automatically, sync data into CRMs, and provide personalized coaching to sales reps based on call insights. It's designed to help sales teams run better meetings and close more deals without manual note-taking or review.

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

We live and work in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. After YC, we plan to keep the company based here while expanding our U.S. presence.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Munich has a strong engineering talent pool and the right environment for building our product. We want to stay grounded where we are successful but also benefit from YC's network and resources, especially in the U.S. market.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Demodesk YC application?

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