Midrender YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Midrender went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 1
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Konstantin HohrFounder

What Midrender does

Midrender is a visual editor for creating motion graphics, powered by AI. Point the agent at your codebase, it reads your code, understands the feature, and creates an animated walkthrough you can ship. A full timeline and design editor lets you fine-tune every detail.

Midrender's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Midrender, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Midrender

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Turn product features into launch videos

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

We built a visual editor that creates motion graphics videos from product codebases. Our AI reads the code, understands new features, and generates animated walkthroughs that product, design, and engineering teams can use to explain launches. There's also a timeline and design editor so users can tweak the animations themselves.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA. The company is also based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where most of our users are. Being here keeps us close to early customers and engineers who use our tool.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Midrender YC application?

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