Slite

Slite YC Application

Winter 2018Active

Slite went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 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 2018
Industry
B2BProductivity
Team size
40
Status
Active
Launched
2017

Founders

  • Christophe Pasquier
    Christophe PasquierFounder

What Slite does

Slite is an AI-powered knowledge base making it easy to create, manage, and access company information. Teams can quickly find what they need by simply asking questions. Slite makes it easy to keep your company's knowledge current. Over 1,500 companies and 50 000 users leverage Slite as their trusted source of knowledge.

Slite's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Slite

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Team documentation without the pain

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

We built Slite, a knowledge base designed to help teams create, update, and find documentation easily. It removes the usual frustration of maintaining docs and lets users ask natural questions to get information instantly. Our tool is focused on keeping company knowledge current and accessible for teams.

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

We live in Berlin, Germany, and plan to keep Slite based here after YC, with a partly remote team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Berlin has a growing tech scene and the founder is based here. We also work with a remote team, which suits how we build the product and serve customers globally.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Slite YC application?

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

What YC batch was Slite in?

Slite was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2018 batch.

Who founded Slite?

Slite was founded by Christophe Pasquier.

What does Slite do?

Team documentation removing the pain of maintaining and finding info

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

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

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