Pulse YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Pulse 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: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 9
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Sid Manchkanti
Ritvik Pandey

What Pulse does

Pulse converts complex information into LLM-ready inputs. Our API supports all document formats, from PDFs to Word, Excel, etc. Pulse integrates seamlessly with any existing data pipeline in minutes without any training or complexity.

Pulse's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pulse

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Production-grade unstructured document extraction

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

We build an API that extracts structured data from all kinds of documents - PDFs, Word files, Excel sheets, and more. The output is optimized for large language models, making it easy to plug into existing data pipelines with no training required. Our product turns complex, messy documents into clean, usable inputs.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we both currently work and live. It's the center of the ecosystem and access to early customers and engineers is much stronger here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pulse YC application?

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