Pave YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Pave went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Team size: 170
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Matt Schulman

What Pave does

Pave allows you to make smarter comp decisions and eliminate spreadsheets, powered by real-time integrations with your HRIS, ATS, and Cap Table.

Pave's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Pave, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pave

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Plan, communicate, and benchmark compensation

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

We make a compensation platform that integrates directly with HRIS systems, applicant tracking, and cap tables to give companies real-time visibility into pay at every stage. It replaces manual spreadsheets and guesswork with data that teams use to design offers, review pay equity, and communicate comp with confidence.

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

We are based in San Francisco, CA and would stay here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco puts us close to our target customers and the broader tech ecosystem driving new approaches to compensation and talent management.

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 Pave YC application?

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