Onward YC Application

Summer 2023Inactive

Onward went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2023
Industry: B2BProductivity
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2023

Founders

Nikolas HuebeckerFounder
Coleman OatesFounder

What Onward does

Onward is a new take on conversational intelligence. We streamline follow-ups, CRM updates, ticket creation, and other tasks after every meeting - helping you connect this knowledge to the rest of your tools.

Onward's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Onward, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Onward

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Intelligent meeting automation for teams

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

We built Onward to automate meeting follow-ups, CRM updates, ticket creation, and other post-meeting tasks. It listens to meetings and automatically connects the insights to your existing tools, saving time and reducing manual errors for sales, support, and product teams.

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

We don't have a fixed location currently and would be flexible to base the company wherever YC suggests after acceptance.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are remote for now, but joining YC means we'd be wherever it makes the most sense to build, grow, and learn. Location is secondary to building the product and talking to users.

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 Onward YC application?

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