Hypnos YC Application

Winter 2019Inactive

Hypnos went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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: Winter 2019
Industry: Consumer
Team size: 3
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2018

Founders

Andrew FleischerFounder
James SinkaFounder

What Hypnos does

Hypnos is an AI powered digital sleep journal that helps you discover how your habits impact your sleep. It does this by taking in your mood, daily activities, and pairing them with data from your sleep tracker. Delivering insights on how to improve your sleep and habits.

Hypnos's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Hypnos, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hypnos

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-powered sleep coach learns and optimizes your sleep

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

We built an AI-driven digital sleep journal that tracks your mood, daily habits, and sleep data from trackers. It analyzes how these factors impact your sleep and gives actionable insights to help improve it.

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

We live in Dallas, TX and work remotely. The company is based in Dallas currently.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live and work out of Dallas because that's where the founding team is based and can move fast without changing locations.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Hypnos YC application?

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