DreamWorld YC Application

Winter 2021Active

DreamWorld went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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: Winter 2021
Industry: ConsumerGaming
Team size: 30
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Garrison BellackFounder
Zachary KaplanFounder

What DreamWorld does

DreamWorld is a next-gen Minecraft with generative AI building. A game and platform for 3D user generated content, DreamWorld is a digital world with one of the largest multiplayer capacities ever developed. Our players grew up on User Generated Content games, but are now 13-40 and have aged out Roblox / Minecraft. DreamWorld provides more powerful building tools, better graphics, and massive social multiplayer.

DreamWorld's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

DreamWorld, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

DreamWorld

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Next-gen Minecraft with generative AI building

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

We built DreamWorld, a new game platform combining a massive digital world with generative AI tools to let players build 3D content faster and with more detail than Minecraft. It supports huge multiplayer sessions and targets players who have outgrown Roblox and Minecraft but still want user-generated worlds with better tools and graphics.

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

We live and work in Redwood City, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Redwood City is where we established the company and built the product. Being here keeps us close to engineering talent and partners important for our growth.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real DreamWorld YC application?

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