Rima AI (formerly Garage) YC Application
Rima AI (formerly Garage) went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 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 2022
- Industry
- B2BFinance and Accounting
- Team size
- 5
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2022
Founders
Gwanygha'a GanaCo-Founder
Cedric FoudjetFounder
What Rima AI (formerly Garage) does
Rima helps accountants automate document and spreadsheet work with accuracy and cell-level audit tracking. For accountants that deal with messy docs and spend their time in Excel, Rima enables them to build workflows in natural language to extract and process financial data from PDFs or ERPs into their Excel templates and reconcile their spreadsheets in minutes. Accountants build these workflows once and our agents do the work for them going forward, preserving their institutional memory and know-how.
Rima AI (formerly Garage)'s YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Rima AI (formerly Garage), Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Rima AI (formerly Garage)
Document and spreadsheet automation for accountants
We build a tool that lets accountants automate the tedious process of extracting and reconciling financial data. Our product parses messy documents like PDFs or ERP outputs and accurately populates Excel templates. Accountants create natural language workflows once, and our agents keep doing the work thereafter, tracking every cell change so their knowledge and history is preserved.
We live in Austin, Texas, and the company is based here, though we operate remotely as a distributed team.
Austin gives us access to talent and a good startup scene, while keeping costs lower than coastal hubs. We already have a remote-first setup and the founders are here, so it made sense to base the company here.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Rima AI (formerly Garage) YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Rima AI (formerly Garage)'s public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Rima AI (formerly Garage) would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Rima AI (formerly Garage) in?
Rima AI (formerly Garage) was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2022 batch.
Who founded Rima AI (formerly Garage)?
Rima AI (formerly Garage) was founded by Gwanygha'a Gana, Cedric Foudjet.
What does Rima AI (formerly Garage) do?
Document and spreadsheet automation for accountants
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Rima AI (formerly Garage)'s application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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