Opennote YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Opennote went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 batch as a Consumer 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 2025
Industry: Consumer
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Rishi SrihariFounder
Abhi AryaCo-Founder and CTO
Vedant VyasFounder

What Opennote does

Opennote is a notebook with an AI thinking partner built in. Feynman lives in your work: it edits your writing, references your knowledge and the web, runs background tasks, and gives feedback as you work.

Opennote's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Opennote, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Opennote

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The notebook that thinks with you.

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

We are building Opennote, a notebook with an AI thinking partner built in. It edits your writing, references your knowledge and the web, runs background tasks, and gives feedback as you work. Essentially, Feynman lives in your work.

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

We all live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we already live and work, and it's where our early users and community are. Staying here keeps us close to the talent and ecosystem relevant to AI-enhanced consumer productivity.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Opennote YC application?

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