Names & Faces YC Application

Summer 2018Active

Names & Faces went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 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 2018
Industry: B2BHuman Resources
Team size: 20
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Richard Arscott
Paul Galatis

What Names & Faces does

Build a visual index of everyone in your organization that's instantly accessible, fully customizable, and always connected to your data. Help everyone from the CEO to the new joiner get to know who's who, get context for where people fit in and get in touch when they need to.

Names & Faces's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Names & Faces, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Names & Faces

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Fast, visual indexes of people and organizations

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

We build a visual index of everyone in an organization that's instantly accessible and customizable. Our tool helps anyone in a company - from the CEO to new hires - quickly understand who people are, their context within the organization, and how to get in touch when they need to.

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

We live in Palo Alto, CA, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in Palo Alto keeps us close to tech talent and potential B2B clients. It's where the core of our team and network is located, so it makes sense to keep the company here after YC.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Names & Faces YC application?

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