Patchwork YC Application

Winter 2024Inactive

Patchwork went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2024

Founders

Dhruhin KurliFounder
Nikki ShahFounder

What Patchwork does

Patchwork replaces your inefficient Slack with an intelligent feed personalized for each team member with all of their daily updates, design and engineering discussions, and announcements.

Patchwork's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Patchwork, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Patchwork

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Your team's AI powered communication tool

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

We built Patchwork to replace Slack for teams that get overwhelmed by chatter and scattered notifications. It compiles all daily updates, discussions in design and engineering, and announcements into a personalized AI-powered feed for each user, so they don't miss what matters and waste less time managing messages.

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

We live in San Francisco, and after YC the company will be based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco puts us close to our target users - teams in tech companies - and the startup ecosystem we want to join. It's where we can build relationships and recruit whenever we need to.

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 Patchwork YC application?

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