Slidely AI YC Application

Summer 2022Active

Slidely AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2022
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Apoorve SinghalFounder
Nikhil ShahFounder

What Slidely AI does

Create new slides or upgrade existing ones with AI that works natively inside PowerPoint and stays true to your company’s branding, templates, and standards. How Slidely AI is different - 1. Works directly in PowerPoint Native PPTX support - no HTML-to-PPT hacks, exports, or broken layouts. 2. Improves slides you already have Because it understands real PowerPoint files, Slidely AI can rewrite, redesign, and tighten existing decks - not just generate new ones. 3. Agentic, consulting-grade output Unlike other tools which can only use simple templates, Slidely AI agent puts each shape individually on slides to express your complex data. 4. Truly on-brand, every time Learns from your past decks to follow your colors, fonts, layouts, and slide patterns - so every slide looks like it came from you, not a generic AI tool.

Slidely AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Slidely AI, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Slidely AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI that creates and improves PowerPoint slides

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

We build an AI tool that works inside PowerPoint to create new slides or improve existing decks. Unlike typical slide generators, our AI understands real PPTX files, can rewrite and redesign slides while following your company's branding, layouts, and templates. It places each shape properly, making the output look like it came from an expert designer at the company, not a generic AI tool.

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

We live in Bengaluru, India, and the company will continue to be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Bengaluru has a strong engineering talent pool and is our home, which makes building and iterating on the product faster and more direct.

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 Slidely AI YC application?

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

What YC batch was Slidely AI in?

Slidely AI was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2022 batch.

Who founded Slidely AI?

Slidely AI was founded by Apoorve Singhal, Nikhil Shah.

What does Slidely AI do?

AI for professional PowerPoint presentations, available in PowerPoint

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Slidely AI's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.