Golpo YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Golpo went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 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 2025
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Shraman KarFounder
Shreyas KarFounder

What Golpo does

Golpo AI is the world's best platform to create fully produced whiteboard explainer videos from just a prompt or document. Instead of hiring an agency, you simply input a prompt or document explaining what you want, and in minutes you get a whiteboard explainer video in a style similar to Khan Academy or RSA Animate. After creation, you have the ability to edit all aspects of the video with just prompts. It's perfect for training, faceless YouTube, marketing, technical, and educational videos - any video where understanding is important. Trusted by over 120,000 users, Golpo features include but are not limited to: 1) Convert your narration into an explainer video (with your narration as audio and the video time aligned) 2) Input your document or prompt. Document can be of virtually any format or type (text, audio, video etc.) 3) Script-to-video with matching audio 4) Videos up to 10 minutes 5) 50+ languages 6) dead-simple editing after generation 7) Insert your own videos and images into the generation, used as-is without alteration. 8) 10+ visuals styles, including pen in hand, voice cloning, vertical video, custom branding and more! API access available.

Golpo's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Golpo, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Golpo

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Create Whiteboard Explainer Videos with AI

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

Golpo lets users create fully produced whiteboard explainer videos from just a prompt or document. You input your text, audio, or video document explaining what you want, and in minutes it generates a whiteboard style video like Khan Academy or RSA Animate. Users can edit every part of the video by writing new prompts. It supports script-to-video with audio syncing, multiple visual styles, voice cloning, and custom branding. The product targets training, marketing, educational, and faceless YouTube videos where clarity matters.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and Golpo would be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where our team is currently based. Being here keeps us close to potential customers and talent in AI and video technology.

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 Golpo YC application?

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