Kilvin YC Application

Fall 2024Active

Kilvin went through Y Combinator in the Fall 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: Fall 2024
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Christopher SchlaepferFounder
Jorrie BrettinFounder

What Kilvin does

Kilvin is an AI-native agency that builds custom software solutions for non-technical teams. With AI, the future of software is democratized. Every team deserves tools built exactly for them, not off-the-shelf SaaS products they need to adapt to. Kilvin makes it a reality, delivering a private, secure workspace of custom applications, built around your workflows and ready in days, not months. No engineers needed on your side. Just software that fits exactly how you work.

Kilvin's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Kilvin, Fall 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Kilvin

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Custom software for non-technical teams

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

We build custom software solutions tailored precisely to how non-technical teams work. Instead of forcing teams to adapt to generic SaaS, Kilvin delivers private, secure, AI-native applications built around each team's unique workflows. Teams get a custom workspace ready in days, with no engineers required on their side.

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

We live in New York, NY, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in New York because that's where the founding team lives and works; it gives us strong customer access and proximity to independent teams who need our product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Kilvin YC application?

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