IcePanel YC Application

Winter 2023Active

IcePanel went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 9
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Jacob ShadboltCEO & Co-founder
Victor LeachFounder

What IcePanel does

IcePanel is a collaborative diagramming tool that helps software engineering and product teams align on technical decisions. Teams use IcePanel to create a map of their software systems, giving them full context about how it works.

IcePanel's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

IcePanel, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

IcePanel

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Design and explain complex software architecture.

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

We built IcePanel to help software engineering and product teams map out their software systems visually. It's a collaborative diagramming tool that gives teams full context on how their software works and helps them align on technical decisions.

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

We live in North Vancouver, BC, Canada, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're building close to home where our team is located and where we can work closely together. Being here lets us stay connected to our engineering network and users in similar B2B software roles.

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 IcePanel YC application?

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