Scribe YC Application

Winter 2017Acquired

Scribe went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2017 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 2017
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 15
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2016

Founders

Sachin BhatFounder
Rutika MuchhalaFounder

What Scribe does

Scribe is an AI-Powered Sales Assistant for your inside sales team, that you can hire in <10 minutes. Scribe magically finds the best prospects, writes highly personalized emails, handles objections and schedules demos with pre-qualified leads. To put it into perspective, our customers have been able to get 3X the number of qualified meetings for 50% of the cost, and your SDRs can now focus on only the warmest leads. Scribe is backed by Y Combinator and other elite Silicon Valley investors and is fundamentally transforming sales.

Scribe's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Scribe, Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Scribe

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Sales Development Representative

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

We are building an AI-powered sales assistant for inside sales teams. Scribe automatically finds the best prospects, writes personalized outreach emails, handles common objections, and schedules demos with qualified leads. It helps sales teams focus on warm leads and increases qualified meetings while cutting costs.

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

We currently live and operate in Bengaluru, KA, India. After YC, we plan to keep the company based here and leverage YC's network to grow globally.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We built the product from Bengaluru where we have access to strong engineering talent and can move fast. We want to maintain this base to stay lean and focused while using YC's resources to reach international customers.

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 Scribe YC application?

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