Kaizen YC Application

Spring 2025Active

Kaizen went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2025 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: Spring 2025
Industry: B2B
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Kenneth AcquahFounder
Michael SilverFounder

What Kaizen does

Kaizen uses browser agents to automate operational work across legacy web portals. We’re tackling the $300B business process outsourcing market by replacing the manual portal work that powers industries like healthcare, logistics, and financial services.

Kaizen's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Kaizen, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Kaizen

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automate anything on the web.

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

We build browser agents that automate manual tasks on legacy web portals. Our product plugs into operational workflows in industries like healthcare, logistics, and financial services - replacing people clicking through portals with software that interacts just like a human would but does it faster and without error.

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

We 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 have built our initial product and network. It also places us close to key partners and customers in the industries we serve, so it's the logical place for us to grow the company.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Kaizen YC application?

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