Mistle YC Application

Summer 2022Active

Mistle went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Jonathan LowFounder
Thomas JiangFounder

What Mistle does

Mistle is the open source alternative to Stripe Minions, Ramp Inspect and Shopify River. Instead of spending months building an internal platform, teams use Mistle to run collaborative background agents from day one.

Mistle's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Mistle, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Mistle

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open source background agents

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

We build an open source platform that lets engineering, product, and design teams run background agents collaboratively from day one. Instead of building internal tooling for tasks like data workflows or inspection processes, teams plug into Mistle as a ready alternative to Stripe Minions, Ramp Inspect, or Shopify River.

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

We live in Singapore and the company is based there, but we operate remotely.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in Singapore because that's where all three founders are located, and remote work lets us collaborate efficiently while staying connected to the Asia-Pacific market.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Mistle YC application?

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