Noya Software YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Noya Software went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Devin AbbottFounder

What Noya Software does

Noya is a new kind of product design tool for non-designers. This is our second time co-founding a design tools company - our first company was acquired by Airbnb in 2017 and we became the design tools team there. At Airbnb, we built the design infrastructure that the entire company relied on to scale design without increasing headcount costs. We did this by letting non-designers (such as marketing, PMs, and engineering) design screens and websites. Now we're making these tools available to every company.

Noya Software's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Noya Software, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Noya Software

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Product design tool for non-designers

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

Noya is a design tool that lets people who aren't trained designers - like product managers, engineers, and marketers - design user interfaces. It's built on our experience scaling design tools at Airbnb to let companies design screens and websites without needing more design headcount.

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

Devin and David live in San Francisco and remote. After YC, the company will be based in San Francisco, CA.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live in San Francisco or remote to be close to tech companies and users who hire design and product teams. It lets us stay connected to the problems of scaling design in organizations.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Noya Software YC application?

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