Onshore YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Onshore 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: B2BFinance and Accounting
Team size: 60
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Dominic VitucciFounder

What Onshore does

Onshore uses AI to prepare corporate R&D tax credits. With our technology, anyone can prepare an R&D Tax Credit accurately and fast. To provide some background, the R&D Credit is often cited as the most complex and audited tax credit in the United States. With that in mind, we set out to create software to achieve two primary objectives: 1. Ensure that any credit computed with our software is exactly what the IRS is asking for in terms of quality. 2. Democratize the ability to perform high quality R&D Credit studies extremely fast.

Onshore's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Onshore

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI for corporate tax

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

We built software that uses AI to prepare corporate R&D tax credits accurately and quickly. The R&D credit is one of the most complex and scrutinized tax credits in the US. Our product ensures any credit calculated matches exactly what the IRS requires, and lets companies do R&D tax studies fast without expert help.

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

We live in New York, NY and the company is based there. We plan to keep it there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where we found product-market fit. It's a hub for finance and accounting firms who use our product and where we can recruit the talent we need.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Onshore YC application?

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