Sequin YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Sequin went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Vrinda GuptaFounder
Mark ThomasFounder

What Sequin does

Sequin AI is building compliance-first AI voice agents to automate human agent intensive collections calls for consumer lenders and servicers. CEO and Co-founder Vrinda Gupta, former Visa product leader who built the Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card and ran audits for top 10 issuers, teamed up with CTO and Co-founder Mark Thomas, former PayPal engineering leader, to bring world-class technology to consumer lending and servicing. Backed by Y Combinator, Sequin AI has raised $5.7M from top investors, including executives at OpenAI, the Schwab family, and leading venture funds like Matrix, Commerce Ventures, and Thomvest - the same firms behind some of the most iconic technology companies of our time. Reach out to learn if Sequin's AI Voice Agents can dramatically reduce your cost of collections today.

Sequin's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sequin, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sequin

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI voice agents for collections calls

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

We are building compliance-first AI voice agents that automate collections calls, specifically for consumer lenders and servicers. Our product simulates human agents to handle the typically time-consuming and regulated conversations needed to collect payments.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company is based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the talent and investor community we need, and since we both live here, it simplifies operations and recruiting.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sequin YC application?

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