Niles YC Application

Winter 2017Inactive

Niles went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2017 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 2017
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2016

Founders

Mack LuFounder/CEO

What Niles does

Niles is a real-time wiki who lives in Slack and turns chats and docs into team knowledge.

Niles's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Niles, Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Niles

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Knowledge Assistant for Work.

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

We're building Niles, a real-time wiki that lives inside Slack. It captures chats and documents automatically to turn them into searchable, structured team knowledge. This helps teams avoid reinventing the wheel and keeps information accessible without leaving Slack.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is located and where many of our users are. Being here keeps us close to early customers and the tech ecosystem.

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 Niles YC application?

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