Ironclad YC Application

Summer 2015Active

Ironclad went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BLegal
Team size: 700
Status: Active
Launched: 2015

Founders

Jason BoehmigFounder/CEO

What Ironclad does

Ironclad helps companies make and manage their business contracts. Customers like L'Oréal, Heineken, and Salesforce use our platform to move up to 80% faster, make better decisions through data, and effectively manage risk. We are backed by investors like Accel, Sequoia, Bond, Franklin Templeton, SV Angel, and Y Combinator.

Ironclad's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Ironclad, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Ironclad

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-powered contract management

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

We build software that helps companies create, store, and manage their business contracts. Our platform uses AI to speed up contract workflow, improve decision-making with data insights, and mitigate legal risk. Legal teams at companies like Salesforce and Heineken use Ironclad instead of managing contracts manually or with legacy tools.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company is based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where most of our customers and legal-tech talent are. Staying here keeps us close to users and top engineers who understand contract workflows well.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Ironclad YC application?

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