Genuity YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Genuity went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2021
Industry: B2B
Team size: 31
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Colum DonahueFounder
Jason NobleFounder
Zaeem asifFounder

What Genuity does

Genuity is a one-stop-shop for companies to manage IT and buy business software. Companies use Genuity to keep track of all the company laptops, manage employee support requests, and buy software at wholesale prices.

Genuity's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Genuity, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Genuity

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

SaaS to manage IT and buy business software

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

We built a platform that helps companies track all their laptops, manage employee IT support requests, and buy business software at wholesale prices. It's a single place for IT teams to handle hardware inventory and software procurement without juggling multiple tools.

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

We live in Chicago, IL, and the company would be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're all based in Chicago with our team of around 30 and have built our initial user base here. Staying local keeps us close to our early customers and the operations we've established, but YC would help us expand beyond that.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Genuity YC application?

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