Prelay YC Application

Winter 2020Inactive

Prelay went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2020
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 16
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Enoch CheungFounder
Gabriella DeFlorioFounder

What Prelay does

Most revenue teams have difficulty getting the right team members and internal stakeholders involved in a deal at the right time which creates waste of resources, delays deals, and causes deal slippage. With Prelay's team selling software, coordination and communication is all organized within one purpose-built platform integrated with your other key software instead of spread across multiple disjointed collaboration tools without any centralized tracking, oversight, or learnings. Not only are there fewer headaches for sales reps and their technical counterparts, but sales, presales, and revenue operations leaders have more insight into where and how resources are being used as well as how effective they are at surpassing their goals. Prelay enables your revenue team and its internal stakeholders to coordinate and communicate effectively so you can drive more revenue faster as a team. Prelay is also backed by top-tier investors including funds like Y Combinator, SV Angel, Liquid2 Ventures and executives from Box, Dropbox, Palantir, SAP, and Microsoft.

Prelay's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Prelay, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Prelay

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Team Selling Platform

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

We built Prelay to solve a common problem revenue teams face: coordinating the right people internally during deals. Our platform organizes communication and collaboration within a single tool that integrates with existing sales software. It prevents deals slipping by making sure the right stakeholders and resources are involved at the right time, giving visibility to sales, presales, and ops leaders into team efforts and resource effectiveness.

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.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our target customers and partners are located, and where the team is based, so it's the natural home for Prelay.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Prelay YC application?

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