Moots YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Moots went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2022
Industry: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Tonjé Bakang TonjeFounder & CEO

What Moots does

Moots is the Guest Intelligence platform. We engineer the room so every guest walks away with the conversation they came for, and with a relationship that lasts beyond it. Built for the events where the room matters: brand activations, advisory retreats, investor gatherings, members clubs, donor cultivation, political fundraisers, and recurring tech communities on Luma.

Moots's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Moots, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Moots

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The guest intelligence platform for corporate events

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

We built a platform that helps organizers of high-value corporate events understand their guests better and engineer conversations that matter. Moots captures and delivers guest intelligence to maximize meaningful interactions at brand activations, investor gatherings, political fundraisers, and other curated events.

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

We live in New York, NY, and the company is based there now and would remain after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our focus is on high-touch corporate events concentrated in major cities like New York. Being here helps us stay close to our customers and the event ecosystem we're serving.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Moots YC application?

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