Nara YC Application

Winter 2022Acquired

Nara 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: 3
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2022

Founders

Angela CastilloFounder
Felipe AbelloFounder
Oscar RojasFounder

What Nara does

We make it easy for small and medium businesses to build an AI sales agents for their websites and social media, augmenting their sales capacity. This assistant provides personalized shopping recommendations to customers and is available 24/7 to answer their questions.

Nara's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Nara

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

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

We build AI sales agents that small and medium businesses can deploy on their websites and social media. Our assistant answers customer questions instantly and recommends products 24/7, helping businesses handle more sales conversations without hiring more staff.

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

We live in San Francisco and remote locations. After YC, we would base the company in San Francisco to stay close to tech partners and customers.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the best place for us to connect with early adopters and investors and recruit talent while keeping the team remote and agile.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Nara YC application?

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