Maia YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Maia went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 batch as a Healthcare 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: Winter 2024
Industry: HealthcareConsumer Health and Wellness
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Claire WileyFounder

What Maia does

Maia helps couples connect more each day. Trained by relationship experts, Maia offers daily activities, personalized advice, proactive insights, quizzes and games through AI and relationship science.

Maia's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Maia, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Maia

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI relationship app that keeps couples together

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

We built Maia to help couples connect daily using AI trained by relationship experts. Maia offers personalized advice, proactive insights, quizzes, games, and daily activities rooted in relationship science to prevent couples from drifting apart.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we built Maia and where our network and early users are. Staying here lets us move fast and easily access talent and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Maia YC application?

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