Monterey AI YC Application

Summer 2022Acquired

Monterey AI 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: 6
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2022

Founders

Chun JiangFounder

What Monterey AI does

Monterey AI helps companies understand what actions to take to improve engagement and reduce churn by setting up user feedback channels, auto-collecting, and analyzing qualitative feedback and quantitative data from multiple sources.

Monterey AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Monterey AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Turn user feedback to product insights

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

We build a platform that sets up user feedback channels across a company's product, automatically collects both qualitative feedback and quantitative data, and analyzes them to show what actions product, design, and engineering teams should take to improve engagement and reduce churn.

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

We are based in San Francisco, CA, USA with a mostly remote team. After YC, the company will remain headquartered in San Francisco while supporting remote work.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco gives us direct access to customers in tech and product teams and a strong engineering talent pool. Our team also prefers a flexible remote setup that works for productivity and recruiting.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Monterey AI YC application?

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