Snapdocs YC Application

Winter 2014Active

Snapdocs went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2014 batch as a Real Estate and Construction 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 2014
Industry: Real Estate and ConstructionHousing and Real Estate
Team size: 285
Status: Active
Launched: 2013

Founders

Aaron KingFounder/CEO

What Snapdocs does

We're building digital infrastructure and workflow tools to connect the many parties involved in real estate transactions. The result is a more digital, online, and automated process for everyone involved.

Snapdocs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Snapdocs, Winter 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Snapdocs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Digital mortgage closing

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

We're building a platform that connects everyone involved in real estate transactions - agents, title companies, lenders, and notaries - to digitize and automate the mortgage closing process. Our product simplifies scheduling, document handling, and workflow coordination to replace paper-heavy, manual closings.

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 hosts a rich network of real estate technology companies and professionals who benefit from our product, making it the ideal place to build and scale Snapdocs.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Snapdocs YC application?

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