Guilded YC Application

Profile updated September 9, 2026Summer 2017Acquired

San Francisco, CA, USA

Guilded went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2017 batch as a Consumer 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 2017
Industry: ConsumerGaming
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Team size: 30
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2017

Founders

Eli BrownFounder & CEO

What Guilded does

Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more.

Guilded's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Guilded, Summer 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Guilded

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Chat for gaming communities

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

We built Guilded to upgrade group chat for gaming communities. It adds integrated event calendars, forums, and tools to help gaming groups coordinate and communicate better than generic chat apps.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company would be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are now and where the gaming and startup community overlaps, so it's the natural base for Guilded.

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 Guilded YC application?

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