Klarity YC Application

Summer 2018Active

Klarity went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 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 2018
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 128
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Andrew AntosFounder/CEO
Nischal NadhamuniFounder/CTO

What Klarity does

Klarity is Enterprise AI that helps companies like OpenAI, DoorDash, CrowdStrike and Zoom bend the G&A curve. Klarity delivers two core capabilities: (1) unlimited transformation; creating a digital twin of your business to identify gaps, risks and inefficiencies, and provide valuable insights into your business in weeks instead of quarters, and (2) intelligent document processing that turns contracts, invoices, and POs into audit-ready data with 82%+ pass-through rates. Klarity reduces OpEx, boosts accuracy, and empowers CFOs to deliver board-ready ROI.

Klarity's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Klarity, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Klarity

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

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

We build an AI platform that creates a digital twin of a company's core administrative functions to identify gaps, risks, and inefficiencies at scale. Our product processes contracts, invoices, and purchase orders to convert them into audit-ready data with high accuracy. It's designed to reduce operating expenses and improve accuracy for CFOs and finance teams at large enterprises.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and Klarity is based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco lets us access the best AI talent and connect with enterprise customers and investors, which is critical for our growth and product development.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Klarity YC application?

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