Lore YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Lore went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Terrell MarshallFounder
Aditya NadkarniFounder

What Lore does

Transform your iMessage conversations into shareable stories Founded by a team of ex-Google Photos and AI engineers, we’re bringing the same “turn personal data into something you actually come back to” loop to relationships

Lore's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lore, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lore

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Transform your iMessage chats into stories

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

We build Lore, an app that turns your iMessage conversations into shareable stories. It analyzes text threads and automatically compiles moments into narrative formats users want to share or revisit, bringing personal messaging data to life beyond just chat logs.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the AI talent and tech ecosystem that match our team's background and product focus, so it makes sense to build and grow the company here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lore YC application?

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