Inventive AI YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Inventive AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2023
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 12
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Dhiren BhatiaFounder
Vishakh HegdeFounder and CTO
Gaurav NemadeFounder

What Inventive AI does

Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & questionnaire response management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows. **Core benefits and features:** - **10X Faster Drafts With Highly Accurate Responses**: Using Inventive’s proprietary AI-system you can get first drafts 10 times faster, with accurate responses rooted in your knowledge sources, that you and your team can collaborate on to refine. - **Single Hub for All Your Knowledge Sources:** Inventive offers a centralized hub for all your knowledge sources. You can upload previous RFPs and relevant documents; integrate with your internal data systems such as gDrive. Sharepoint & more; upload Q&A from legacy tools or spreadsheets; and even add information from your websites. - **Fight Stale Content With AI Content Manager:** Inventive’s AI content manager proactively flags conflicting content by identifying issues within your sources, so you only use fresh and relevant content in your responses. - **Higher Productivity & Competitive Advantage With AI Agents:** Inventive offers a suite of AI agents designed to boost productivity and give you a competitive advantage. These agents can help with researching competitors, brainstorming ideas, and more. Built by a customer-obsessed team comprising an ex-exec from a Fortune 500 company and ex-AI team from Google & Stanford. Backed by top Silicon Valley investors including YCombinator.

Inventive AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Inventive AI, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Inventive AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Agents For RFP and Questionnaire Response Automation

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

We built an AI-powered platform that automates responses to RFPs and questionnaires for sales teams. It pulls from all your past questions, internal databases, and websites to draft accurate responses 10 times faster. Teams can collaborate on drafts and use AI agents to research competitors or brainstorm, all in one hub.

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

We live and are based in San Francisco, CA. The company will remain in San Francisco after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco keeps us close to investors, early customers, and a strong talent pool for AI and enterprise software. It fits our team and customer base well.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Inventive AI YC application?

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