Sanifu YC Application

Summer 2022Active

Sanifu 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: B2BOperations
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Sidney RemaFounder
Phelix JumaFounder

What Sanifu does

Sanifu automates the repetitive work spreadsheets are used for. Teams across finance, marketing, operations, and revenue simply describe their repetitive work like cleaning and validating data, matching records, preparing reports and moving data from emails, PDFs and Excel exports into dashboards and other systems. Sanifu captures the steps, rules and outputs so the work is repeated reliably every time Some of these work never needed spreadsheets to begin with; the likes of data cleanup, bank reconciliations, report consolidation, payment allocations, channel attributions. Spreadsheets have become the standard workbench for handling these tasks and in the process, teams lose valuable time doing manual data entry, filling templates, formatting data, applying formulas, deleting rows or columns. Sanifu is replacing the spreadsheet while maintaining the logic and processes behind the work, getting you from inputs to your desired outputs in seconds. This significantly reduces time spent on copy-paste work, spreadsheet cleanup, and manual entries and checking, while improving accuracy, consistency, and operational visibility. Sanifu helps teams scale critical back-office processes without relying on brittle spreadsheets, scripts, or general AI tools that reinvent the logic every run. Sanifu is a full operational platform with 5k+ app integrations, 1k+ native functions, forms, scheduler, data stores, dashboards, approvals, reviews, AI-powered entity matching among many other features that make it an end-to-end data app management platform

Sanifu's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sanifu, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sanifu

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automate repetitive spreadsheet work

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

We are building a platform that automates the repetitive tasks people currently do in spreadsheets. Users in finance, marketing, operations, and revenue describe the processes like data cleaning, validating, matching records, and report prep. Sanifu captures the workflow steps and outputs so these tasks run automatically and reliably every time, cutting down manual copy-paste, formula fixing, and data entry. We integrate with thousands of apps and offer built-in functions and AI entity matching to replace spreadsheets without losing their logic.

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

We live in Nairobi, Kenya, with a remote team. After YC, the company will remain based in Nairobi but will operate fully remote to access talent and customers globally.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Nairobi is where both founders live and know the market. The remote work setup lets us hire globally and serve international teams using spreadsheets. It's cost-effective and connected enough to build and scale.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sanifu YC application?

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