MeetAnyway YC Application

Winter 2021Inactive

MeetAnyway went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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: Winter 2021
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 3
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Erich LehmannFounder
Marc MetzFounder
Sascha MetzFounder

What MeetAnyway does

We help run engaging online conferences. Unlike Hopin or Zoom, we are super focused on connecting conference attendees with each other. Most attendees don’t actually go to watch the talks, they go for the networking. With us they can self-organize, meet and stay in touch. Usually it's incredibly hard for the organizer to build conferences which lead to key business opportunities for the attendees. We have good networking built-in.

MeetAnyway's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

MeetAnyway, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

MeetAnyway

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

We help run engaging online conferences.

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

MeetAnyway is a platform focused on conference networking. Unlike Zoom or Hopin, we build tools that let attendees self-organize, meet each other, and stay connected. We focus on making it easy for organizers to create business opportunities through genuine attendee connections, not just talks.

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

We live in Stuttgart, BW, Germany, and remotely across the team. After YC, we would remain remote but have the option to base the company anywhere it fits our needs.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We started in Stuttgart because that's where we are based, but remote work allows us to be flexible. We want to keep that flexibility after YC and stay close to where the team naturally is.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real MeetAnyway YC application?

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