Fern YC Application
Fern 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
- B2BEngineering, Product and Design
- Team size
- 30
- Status
- Acquired
- Launched
- 2023
Founders
Danny SheridanFounder
Deep SinghviFounder
What Fern does
APIs underpin the internet but are still painful to work with. They are often untyped, unstandardized, and out-of-sync across multiple sources of truth. Fern helps companies deliver SDKs and API documentation that they’re are proud to share with their customers. Since launching in 2023, we’ve been trusted by over 200 customers, including industry leaders like Square, Webflow, ElevenLabs, Auth0, and Intercom, to power their developer and agent experiences. We’re fewer than 40 people, based in Brooklyn, NY, and are building open source.
Fern's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Fern, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Fern
Instantly offer SDKs and API Docs
Fern builds developer tools that generate SDKs and API documentation from APIs. We solve the problem that APIs are often untyped, inconsistent, and out-of-sync across multiple documentation sources. Our product makes it easy for companies' engineering, product, and design teams to ship API docs and SDKs their users trust and actually want to use.
We live in New York, NY and the company is based in Brooklyn, NY. After YC, we would continue operating from New York.
Brooklyn is where our engineering and product team is located, and it's a hub for tech talent we work closely with. Staying here keeps us close to customers in the B2B SaaS and developer tools space we're serving.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Fern YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Fern's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Fern would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Fern in?
Fern was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch.
Who founded Fern?
Fern was founded by Danny Sheridan, Deep Singhvi.
What does Fern do?
Instantly offer SDKs and API Docs
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Fern's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
