DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc. YC Application

Summer 2018Active

DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc. went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 batch as a Consumer 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 2018
Industry: ConsumerGaming
Team size: 23
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Tianyin ZhangFounder/CEO
Veronica YaoFounder/COO

What DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc. does

DreamCraft enables anyone to create, publish, and monetize video games. The company’s core product is a code-free game creation platform, bundled with high quality art assets. DreamCraft is backed by March Capital, Makers Fund, Tencent Corporation, Y Combinator, and other top investors in the gaming space. The company was founded in 2018 and now has a global team of 20+ people with half remote and half based in Silicon Valley.

DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc.'s YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc., Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc.

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Platform for anyone to create and monetize games

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

We are building a code-free game creation platform that lets users create, publish, and monetize video games. It's bundled with game-ready high quality art assets to simplify development. Our goal is to make game creation accessible to creators without programming skills.

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

We live and work in Redwood City, CA, and the company is based there with a distributed team globally.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We started in Silicon Valley to be close to investors and the tech ecosystem, while also embracing remote work to access talent globally. This balance helps us build a strong team without location limits.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc. YC application?

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

What YC batch was DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc. in?

DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc. was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 batch.

Who founded DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc.?

DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc. was founded by Tianyin Zhang, Veronica Yao.

What does DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc. do?

Platform that allows anyone to create and monetize video games.

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc.'s application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.