Sonnet YC Application

Summer 2022Inactive

Sonnet 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: B2BSales
Team size: 7
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2022

Founders

Ted ChaiFounder
Dylan FengFounder

What Sonnet does

Sonnet is an end-to-end meeting assistant, combining a human-quality notetaker with an auto-updating CRM. Our AI notetaker uses the most powerful AI models to transcribe, summarize, and generate notes for your meeting recordings. With Sonnet, collaboration and recollection is both faster and better. Sonnet CRM updates itself automatically using conversation data, so you'll never have to wrangle with CRM fields again. Get up to speed on the context of an entire relationship, in seconds.

Sonnet's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sonnet

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Meeting notes and CRM, automated

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

We built Sonnet to automatically take meeting notes and update CRM records from conversations. Our AI transcribes and summarizes calls, producing notes that are immediately useful. The CRM syncs with conversation data so sales teams don't need to manually update fields or hunt for context.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where our early users are, so it's natural to base the company here to stay close to customers and recruit.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sonnet YC application?

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