Glimpse YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Glimpse went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BRetail
Team size: 27
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Kushal Negi
Anuj Mehta
Akash Raju

What Glimpse does

Glimpse is the leading AI platform for CPG brands - automating key back office workflows like deductions management, revenue recovery, & cash application to increase operating leverage and put millions of dollars back into a brand's pocket. Our agents automatically retrieve deduction data, validate charges, automate cash application, and dispute invalid claims to recover lost revenue - often starting with a lookback of the past year of deductions. For a $1B CPG, one agent reviewed 17,000 deductions in under 24 hours (work that would take an FTE ~2 years), identifying $10M+ in revenue and driving meaningful margin expansion. Pricing is simple and incentive-aligned, structured to create clear P&L impact from day one.

Glimpse's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Glimpse, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Glimpse

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI platform for CPG retail operations

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

We build an AI platform that automates back office workflows for CPG brands, like deductions management, revenue recovery, and cash application. Our system retrieves deduction data, validates charges, applies cash automatically, and disputes invalid claims, helping brands recover revenue and improve margins.

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

We live and are based in New York, NY, and would remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where our team is based and where we have strong access to CPG clients and retail operations teams, which is essential for refining and delivering our product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Glimpse YC application?

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