Humance YC Application
Humance went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 batch as a Real Estate and Construction 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 2021
- Industry
- Real Estate and ConstructionConstruction
- Team size
- 3
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2021
Founders
Soy HwangCofounder
Sunny KimFounder
Yon Soo ParkFounder
What Humance does
Humance is building an AI-powered project management tool for the construction industry, where work is highly coordinated and delays are costly. Large projects involve dozens of interdependent workstreams where a single setback can cascade unpredictably through the entire timeline. Today, most project managers track this manually - tracing dependencies by hand, updating schedules, and notifying stakeholders one by one. It's slow, error-prone, and pulls focus away from the higher-order decisions that demand real expertise. Experienced project managers carry deep knowledge - of sequencing, trade-offs, site realities, and stakeholder dynamics - that no tool can replicate. Humance is built around that expertise. By handling the mechanical work of dependency tracking and schedule coordination, it frees project managers to do what they're actually skilled at: exercising judgment, managing complexity, and keeping the big picture in view.
Humance's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Humance, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Humance
AI that keeps complex construction projects on schedule
We're building an AI-powered project management tool specifically for construction. It tracks dependencies across dozens of interdependent workstreams, updates schedules automatically, and notifies stakeholders. This lets project managers focus on judgment and managing complexity instead of manual coordination.
We live remotely in different locations now, and after YC we plan to remain primarily remote to reflect our distributed team and customer base.
Construction projects are spread out and coordination happens largely remotely or on-site. Being remote lets us hire the best talent and serve customers wherever they are, which matches our users' workflow.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Humance YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Humance's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Humance would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Humance in?
Humance was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2021 batch.
Who founded Humance?
Humance was founded by Soy Hwang, Sunny Kim, Yon Soo Park.
What does Humance do?
AI that keeps complex construction projects on schedule.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Humance's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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