Seam YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Seam went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 25
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Dawn HoFounder
Sy BohyFounder

What Seam does

Seam lets developers connect and control 3rd-party connected devices like door locks, thermostats, and more.

Seam's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Seam, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Seam

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

API for IoT Devices

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

We build an API that lets developers connect and control third-party connected devices like door locks and thermostats. Our platform abstracts diverse IoT hardware into a single developer interface so teams can build faster without wrestling with different protocols or hardware integrations.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco puts us close to top engineering talent and many of our early customers are developers at tech-forward companies in the area.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Seam YC application?

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