Sola YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Sola went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2B
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Jessica WuFounder
Neil DeshmukhFounder

What Sola does

Sola is copilot for workflow automation. We help automation-minded teams build robust robotic agents to handle tedious tasks via LLMs and computer vision, smoothly integrated into their standard workflow. Our tooling makes it easy for companies to automate data entry/scraping in manual filing and processing flows. Go from a screen recording to a bot in any desktop or browser workflow; develop logic and watch logic self-develop in the face of new events!

Sola's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sola, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sola

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Copilot for Robotic Process Automation

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

We make a tool that lets teams build bots to automate tedious desktop and browser workflows using LLMs and computer vision. Users record their screens, then create logic that adapts as processes change, automating tasks like data entry and scraping without traditional RPA complexity.

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

We live and work in New York City, and the company would remain based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

NYC is where our team is located and where we engage directly with automation-minded teams who use our product. Staying here keeps us close to our early users and the B2B market we serve.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sola YC application?

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