Rocketable YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Rocketable went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 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 2025
Industry: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Alan WellsFounder

What Rocketable does

Rocketable is building a large portfolio of wildly profitable software businesses by acquiring existing products and replacing human teams with AI agents. Today’s foundation models already possess enough intelligence to automate most of the tasks required to run a profitable software business. In the functions where agents aren’t yet intelligent enough to replace humans, they will be soon. When every human function required to operate a software product has an AI agent equivalent, the next step will be within reach: operating an entire company with a team of AI agents instead of humans. But superintelligent agents within each function won’t be enough. To operate a software company with 0 human employees, the agents will need to be directed towards common goals, integrated to collaborate across functions, tuned with feedback loops connected to product metrics, and trained to make resource allocation decisions. We are creating the tools needed to replace the entire org chart of a software company with a team of AI agents. We are developing these tools by owning the products that we automate, because we know from 10+ years of experience building automated systems with AI/ML that integration is the key to unlocking superhuman performance.

Rocketable's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Rocketable, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Rocketable

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The AI Maximalist Software Holding Company

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

We acquire existing profitable software businesses and automate them by replacing human teams with AI agents. Our tools orchestrate AI across all functions, so the software company can run itself without human employees. We build these tools by operating the products we own, integrating AI deeply into every process.

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

We are based in San Francisco, CA, and our team is remote. After YC, we'll continue to operate from SF with a remote team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is a hub for software startups and AI talent. Being remote lets us hire flexibly while staying close to the YC network and investors in the Bay Area.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Rocketable YC application?

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