Gooseworks YC Application
Gooseworks 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
- B2BMarketing
- Team size
- 5
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2022
Founders
Himanshu BamoriaFounder
Shiv SakhujaFounder
What Gooseworks does
Goose is an AI creative engine that turns your brand into a continuous stream of on-brand video ads. We index your existing materials - videos, product shots, testimonials, ad performance data - into a context layer, then generate short-form creative for Meta and TikTok at the volume performance marketing actually requires. The engine compounds: the agent learns from ad performance, competitors, trends, and human feedback, so your creative gets better every month. Run as a human-guided, done-for-you service.
Gooseworks's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Gooseworks, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Gooseworks
OpenClaw-style AI coworkers for GTM teams
We're building Goose, an AI creative engine that turns existing brand assets into continuous streams of on-brand short-form video ads for platforms like Meta and TikTok. It indexes your videos, product shots, testimonials, and ad data to generate and optimize volume creative tailored to performance marketing needs. The system learns over time from ad results, trends, competitors, and human input to improve ad quality every month, operating as a human-guided, done-for-you service.
We live in San Francisco, CA, and after YC the company will continue to be based here.
San Francisco is where the team lives and works, and it's where our customers and marketing ecosystem are. Staying here keeps us close to our users and partners, so we can iterate quickly.
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 Gooseworks YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Gooseworks's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Gooseworks would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Gooseworks in?
Gooseworks was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch.
Who founded Gooseworks?
Gooseworks was founded by Himanshu Bamoria, Shiv Sakhuja.
What does Gooseworks do?
OpenClaw-style AI coworkers for GTM teams
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Gooseworks's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
