Praxim YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Praxim 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: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Richie HsiungFounder
Frank LiFounder

What Praxim does

Praxim is the agentic AI word editor that makes edits across your entire word document with formatting control, file and web context, and your personal preferences in mind. Simply tell Praxim what you'd like to do with your document and Praxim will implement your changes automatically.

Praxim's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Praxim

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The agentic AI Word editor

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

We built an AI-powered word editor that makes edits across an entire document based on your instructions. It understands formatting, pulls in context from files and the web, and adapts to your personal style preferences. You just tell Praxim what you want done, and it implements those changes automatically.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we both live and where our early users and network exist. Staying here keeps us connected to this community and access to engineering talent.

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 Praxim YC application?

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