Siftly YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Siftly went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2022
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Chalam PVSFounder
Sandilya MiduthuriFounder

What Siftly does

Siftly helps brands measure, improve, and scale their visibility inside AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. We track how your brand is surfaced, compared, and recommended and give you actionable insights to win AI-driven discovery. Think of it as SEO for the AI era, built for B2B, B2C, D2C, and e-commerce growth teams.

Siftly's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Siftly, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Siftly

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Get your brand discovered and recommended by ChatGPT

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

We built a tool that helps brands track and improve how they appear inside AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Our product measures when and how brands are surfaced or recommended, then gives marketing and growth teams actionable insights to increase visibility in these AI-driven discovery channels. Think of it like SEO, but for the AI era, focusing on a new discovery frontier.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA. After YC, the company will remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the talent and networks necessary for building a B2B AI product and engaging with early AI adopters and customers. It's also where our team is located and where we can scale the company.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Siftly YC application?

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