HyperGlue YC Application

Winter 2021Acquired

HyperGlue went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 5
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2022

Founders

Samuel OluwalanaFounder
Stanley FichFounder

What HyperGlue does

There is more text generated than any one person or team can read. A single product team can not hope to sift through their thousands of feedback responses and determine the signal amongst the noise. Hyperglue enables operators, product managers, and analysts to instantly access machine intelligence on large text datasets without the engineering or headcount overhead required to deploy natural language AI within their business.

HyperGlue's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

HyperGlue, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

HyperGlue

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Business intelligence on text

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

We built HyperGlue to help product managers, operators, and analysts quickly analyze large amounts of text data like customer feedback without needing engineers or dedicated ML teams. Our product applies natural language AI to surface insights from thousands of responses instantly, solving a problem no single team can do manually.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company is based there, with a remote team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the talent and network we need. Being remote-friendly lets us bring on diverse team members without relocating.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real HyperGlue YC application?

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