Poly YC Application

Summer 2022Active

Poly went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 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 2022
Industry: Consumer
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Abhay AgarwalFounder

What Poly does

A personal cloud storage platform that's so good, it'll replace Finder / File Explorer on your desktop. Find anything with multi-modal, natural language search. Browse with a lightning fast interface that feels just like native. Organize, tag, view, edit, share, and more.

Poly's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Poly, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Poly

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Intelligent Personal Cloud Storage

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

We are building Poly, a personal cloud storage platform designed to replace Finder and File Explorer on desktops. It lets users find any file with natural language and multi-modal search, browse with a fast interface that feels native, organize, tag, view, edit, and share their files effortlessly.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we already live and work. Being at the center of tech and having access to YC's community here makes it the obvious base post-YC.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Poly YC application?

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