Sherpa YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Sherpa went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2026 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: Spring 2026
Industry: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Ethan KinnanFounder
Norbu SonamFounder

What Sherpa does

Sherpa automatically increases website conversion rates by analyzing visitor behavior, building new page variants, and continuously A/B testing them. Customers typically see a 15-20% lift on their primary conversion metric in their first 30 days.

Sherpa's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sherpa, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sherpa

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Turn more website visitors into customers

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

We built Sherpa to automatically increase website conversion rates by analyzing visitor behavior, generating new page variants, and continuously A/B testing them. It's a SaaS tool that lets marketing teams improve their top conversion metrics without manual experimentation or needing deep analytics expertise. Normally this requires a lot of trial and error, but Sherpa does all the heavy lifting and typically drives a 15-20% lift for our users in their first month.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live, it's the center of the startup ecosystem and lets us stay close to early customers and other tech founders.

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 Sherpa YC application?

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