Fathom YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Fathom went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 95
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Richard WhiteFounder

What Fathom does

Fathom captures your meetings your way - bot or bot-free, on any call. Ask questions across your entire meeting history and get instant, cited answers. Connect your intelligence to Claude, ChatGPT, your CRM, and more. Desktop, mobile, and in-person. The real value of meetings isn't just the notes. It's the knowledge inside them. #1 AI Notetaker on G2. Works with Zoom, Meet, and Teams.

Fathom's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Fathom

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Flexible AI meeting notetaker

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

We built an AI notetaker that captures meetings on Zoom, Meet, and Teams. It works with or without a bot, recording audio and video, then automatically generating accurate, searchable notes. You can ask questions across your full meeting history and get instant, cited answers. We connect the meeting knowledge to tools like Claude, ChatGPT, or your CRM, making meetings actionable and reducing manual note-taking.

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

We live and work remotely, mostly based in San Francisco, CA. After YC, the company will be officially headquartered in San Francisco but remain remote-friendly.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are for access to talent and investors. Remote work lets us hire broadly. YC itself is based there, so it's natural to base the company here post-program while keeping remote flexibility.

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 Fathom YC application?

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