Resend YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Resend went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 23
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Zeno RochaFounder & CEO
Bu KinoshitaFounder

What Resend does

Resend is the new email API for developers. It's designed for you to build, test, and send transactional emails at scale. If you're using Sendgrid, AWS SES, or Postmark, come talk to us.

Resend's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Resend, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Resend

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Email for developers

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

Resend is an email API designed specifically for developers to build, test, and send transactional emails at scale. It's a simpler, developer-focused alternative to existing options like SendGrid, AWS SES, and Postmark. We focus on making email integration smoother, faster, and more reliable for engineering teams.

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

We live and work fully remote. The company will remain remote after YC to attract talent from anywhere and maintain flexibility.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose to be remote to take advantage of a distributed talent pool and to work asynchronously across time zones. This setup suits our small team and the technical nature of our work.

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 Resend YC application?

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