Holy Grail YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Holy Grail went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2B
Team size: 7
Status: Active
Launched: 2019

Founders

Martin Hangaard Hansen
David Pervan, PhD

Holy Grail's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Holy Grail, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Holy Grail

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI software that helps enterprises analyze documents

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

We build an AI-powered enterprise software platform that extracts insights from complex documents. Our product helps companies automate review and analysis of contracts and other business-critical text to reduce manual work and improve accuracy.

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

Martin and David live in San Francisco and the company is based there and includes remote team members.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and work, and the city gives us access to our target customers and a strong talent pool. Remote work allows us to scale the team flexibly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Holy Grail YC application?

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