Instant YC Application

Profile updated September 9, 2026Summer 2022Active

San Francisco, CA, USA

Instant went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Joe AverbukhFounder
Stepan ParunashviliFounder

What Instant does

Give your AI a real backend. You get auth, permissions, storage, presence, and streams - everything you need to ship apps your users will love.

Instant's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Instant, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Instant

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The best backend for AI-coded apps

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

We are building Instant, a backend platform tailored for AI-coded applications. It provides authentication, permissions, storage, real-time presence, and streams - all the core backend features app builders need to launch faster and ship better user experiences for apps powered by AI.

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

We currently live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are rooted as a team and is the center of developer and AI innovation that our product serves. Staying here lets us stay close to our users, investors, and the tech community.

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 Instant YC application?

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