Polished YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Polished 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

JJ MaxwellFounder
Mark WaiFounder

What Polished does

With Polished, you create finished ads (video or static) in minutes. Then you refine it in plain English, until it's exactly what you had in mind.

Polished's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Polished

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Generate ads. Iterate till perfect.

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

We built a tool that creates finished video or static ads in minutes. After that, you can refine the ads by describing changes in plain English until you get exactly what you want. It's aimed at product, design, and engineering teams who need faster, more flexible ad creation.

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 stay based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco puts us close to our customers and the tech ecosystem we're part of. It's also where we're currently located and working from.

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 Polished YC application?

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