Overstand Labs YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Overstand Labs went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 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 2025
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Mihir PatilFounder
Derrick ChengFounder

What Overstand Labs does

Overstand is a data lab that allows our customers to navigate any set of data in just a few minutes. *Enterprise*: For enterprises, we we unify Slack, email, calls, and operational data, then surface the signals that matter - customer needs, risks, and revenue opportunities hidden in everyday conversations. *Legal Firms*: For legal firms, we help them really quickly understand their entire discovery corpus (either before, or after document review), and quickly build out an initial case assessment and facts. Instead of waiting on reports or manual analysis, teams get immediate, evidence-backed answers from the data they already have. Overstand delivers clarity and leverage as your business scales.

Overstand Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Overstand Labs, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Overstand Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Navigate any set of data - no matter how large - in minutes.

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

We built Overstand, a data lab that lets users navigate any dataset quickly. For enterprises, it combines Slack, email, calls, and operational data to surface key signals about customers, risks, and revenue opportunities hidden in conversations. For legal firms, it helps quickly understand their discovery corpus and build case assessments. Instead of waiting for reports, users get immediate, evidence-backed answers from the data they already have.

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

We live in New York City, NY, and the company will be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

NYC is where our team is based and where many of our initial users operate. Staying here keeps us close to both legal and enterprise customers we serve.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Overstand Labs YC application?

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