Naïve YC Application

Spring 2025Active

Naïve went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2025 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: Spring 2025
Industry: B2B
Team size: 8
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Sean DorjeFounder
Dennis ZaxFounder

What Naïve does

Naïve is an autonomous company builder. You describe what your business does, and Naïve deploys AI employees that actually execute - building your app, closing deals, running campaigns, serving customers. It works for creating new companies and automate existing companies by connecting Naive to their entire stack.

Naïve's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Naïve, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Naïve

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Autonomous Company Infrastructure

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

We build an autonomous company builder. You describe the business you want to run, and Naïve deploys AI employees that execute the work - building apps, closing deals, running marketing campaigns, serving customers. It can create new companies from scratch or automate existing companies by connecting directly to their software stack.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is our home and where our network and talent pool exist. Being in SF helps us recruit the technical team we need and stay close to early users and partners.

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 Naïve YC application?

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