Fabius YC Application

Winter 2023Inactive

Fabius went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2022

Founders

Neil MadsenFounder
Andy DayCo-Founder

What Fabius does

Fabius helps sales leaders understand and improve their reps' performance by analyzing customer calls with AI. Companies like Airbyte and Fermat use us to score every call and identify when a customer hasn’t been properly qualified. Fabius helps drive decisions within sales, including: - Disqualify a deal: Reps work on deals that will never close. We identify the deals that won't be successful and make sure reps don't waste time on them. - Need to strengthen the business case for a deal: We tell managers and reps when a deal has a weak business case and show them how to uncover more business value in the deal.

Fabius's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Fabius, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Fabius

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI to improve Sales Calls

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

We built an AI tool that analyzes recorded sales calls to help sales leaders score every call and spot when reps miss key qualification steps. It highlights which deals likely won't close so reps can avoid wasting time, and identifies weak business cases so managers and reps can strengthen them.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the sales tech ecosystem and AI talent we need. Being local lets us meet customers and partners quickly and iterate faster.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Fabius YC application?

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