Overlap YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Overlap went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: ConsumerContent
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Jonathan BaerFounder/CEO
Casey TrainaFounder/CTO

What Overlap does

Overlap builds multimodal AI agents that can do literally anything you want related to video, such as finding specific moments, generating clips, or analyzing your video library. What takes media companies thousands of hours, we do in seconds.

Overlap's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Overlap, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Overlap

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Multimodal AI agents for video

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

We build AI agents that interact with video in various ways. They can find specific moments, generate clips, or analyze an entire video library, automating tasks that take media companies thousands of hours into seconds.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are already in San Francisco because it's where we can access talent and early users in media and AI. Staying here after YC aligns with our existing team and market.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Overlap YC application?

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