Sketchbox YC Application

Winter 2018Inactive

Sketchbox went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 batch as a Consumer 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 2018
Industry: ConsumerVirtual and Augmented Reality
Team size: 20
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2020

Founders

Joe ConnollyFounder
Peter Le BekFounder

What Sketchbox does

Sketchbox is like WordPress for VR training simulations, we’ve built the underlying infrastructure that makes creating and updating VR training simulations fast. We primarily work with Fortune 500 companies, and all of our training sims include full student analytics and no-code scenario editors. All training simulations designed with Sketchbox work on the next generation of portable VR headsets, which are battery powered, don’t require a laptop and cost $400.

Sketchbox's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sketchbox, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sketchbox

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

WordPress for AR & VR

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

We've built a no-code platform for creating and updating VR training simulations. Our product includes editors for scenario creation and full student analytics. It works on portable, standalone VR headsets used by Fortune 500 companies for workforce training.

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, with some remote team members.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the VR hardware and enterprise software ecosystems exist. Being here lets us work directly with customers and hardware partners.

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 Sketchbox YC application?

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