Proxis YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Proxis went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2024
Industry: B2B
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Liam CollinsFounder

What Proxis does

Proxis is the AI automation platform built for enterprises. Proxis is creating AI email agents that empower brands and enterprise teams to close deals automatically. Think: your inbox, on autopilot. We initially fine tuned and distilled LLMs for enterprise use - and quickly realized that companies need more than just smarter models. They need full-stack automation. So Proxis built AI agents that handle the tedious, time-consuming work - everything from autonomous sales closers to customer service agents. The mission is bold: to build the world’s most capable team of AI agents for every enterprise. Proxis imagines a future where a single founder can run a billion-dollar company - backed by a custom-built army of agents. Proxis is rethinking how agents are built, trained, and deployed from the ground up.

Proxis's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Proxis, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Proxis

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Enterprise AI automation platform for email

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

We are building AI email agents that automate enterprise workflows, starting with sales and customer service. Our agents handle tedious tasks like following up on leads and responding to customers automatically, freeing teams to focus on higher-value work. We began by fine-tuning and distilling large language models but realized companies need more than smart models; they need agents that integrate into existing systems and autonomously close deals or resolve issues.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live, network, and have access to enterprise customers and talent. Staying here keeps us close to our market and future employees.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Proxis YC application?

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