Newfront YC Application

Winter 2018Acquired

Newfront went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 batch as a Fintech 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 2018
Industry: FintechInsurance
Team size: 800
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2017

Founders

Spike LipkinFounder/CEO
Gordon WintrobFounder/CTO

What Newfront does

Newfront is building the modern insurance brokerage. Transparent data delivered real-time translates into a lower total cost of risk and greater insights. We work with 20% of US unicorns, 100s of YC startups, and 150+ public companies on their Business Insurance and Total Rewards. Headquartered in San Francisco, Newfront has more than 800 colleagues and offices throughout the US.

Newfront's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Newfront, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Newfront

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Modern insurance brokerage

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

We built an insurance brokerage platform that brings real-time transparent data to business insurance and total rewards. Our platform helps companies understand and lower their total cost of risk by giving them greater insight into their insurance policies and costs.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the right talent pool for fintech and insurance innovation, and it's where our customers and team naturally converge.

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 Newfront YC application?

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