Next Caller YC Application

Winter 2014Acquired

Next Caller went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2014 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 2014
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 20
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2013

Founders

Ian RoncoroniFounder/CEO

What Next Caller does

We create a positive customer experience through real time call verification technology. Fraudsters cost businesses time and money, and make life more difficult on real customers - whether that’s outright stealing cash or slowing down the phone call authentication process. Next Caller helps businesses fight criminals, not customers, by safely passing through legitimate callers and identifying suspicious interactions. Using VeriCall™, businesses have the opportunity to stop phone fraud before it starts. With our real-time RESTful API, Next Caller verifies good callers and detects spoofed calls to make your business Spoof Proof™ - flagging high-risk calls within milliseconds of the first ring. Based on this threat-level analysis of every call, a business can decide how to handle the customer or criminal on the other end of the line.

Next Caller's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Next Caller, Winter 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Next Caller

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Real-time call verification to stop phone fraud

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

We built VeriCall™, an API that analyzes incoming calls as they happen, verifying legitimate callers and flagging spoofed or high-risk calls within milliseconds. This helps businesses reduce fraud without slowing down their customers.

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

We live and work in New York, NY, where Next Caller is based and operates from.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in New York because many of our customers and the telecom ecosystem are here. It keeps us close to the businesses dealing with phone fraud daily.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Next Caller YC application?

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