Fileforge YC Application

Winter 2024Inactive

Fileforge went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 3
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2023

Founders

Pierre DorgeFounder
Titouan LaunayFounder
Auguste LefevreFounder

What Fileforge does

Fileforge is an API for PDF document workflows. With Fileforge, you can generate, manipulate, host, share, sign and track your documents - all in on place. Our open-source library helps developers build complex documents that integrate with our API and external services to build document-centric workflows.

Fileforge's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Fileforge, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Fileforge

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

API For PDF Document Workflows

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

We built an API that lets developers generate, manipulate, host, share, sign, and track PDF documents in a single place. Our open-source library simplifies building complex documents that integrate with our API and external services to power document workflows.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and after YC the company would remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and have the right network and infrastructure to build and sell developer tools.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Fileforge YC application?

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