SafeButler YC Application

Summer 2017Active

SafeButler went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2017 batch as a Fintech 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 2017
Industry: FintechInsurance
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2017

Founders

Vincent WeiFounder
Nan ZhongFounder

What SafeButler does

SafeButler is a free comparison tool that searches hundreds of insurance websites at once to find the information you need to make the right decisions on insurance

SafeButler's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

SafeButler, Summer 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

SafeButler

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Your chief servant for shopping insurance

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

We built a free comparison tool that searches hundreds of insurance websites simultaneously, helping shoppers find the best insurance options quickly and easily without visiting each site. It's designed to cut through the complexity and opacity of insurance shopping.

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

Vincent lives in Palo Alto and Nan is in Sunnyvale. After YC, the company would be based in the Bay Area.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're both local to Silicon Valley where the fintech and insurance tech community thrives. Being here gives us access to partners, customers, and talent in our industry.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real SafeButler YC application?

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