Souffle Club YC Application

Summer 2019Inactive

Souffle Club went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 batch as a Consumer 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 2019
Industry: ConsumerJob and Career Services
Team size: 3
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2019

Founders

Pradeep MuthukrishnanFounder

What Souffle Club does

We're building a LinkedIn 2.0 where user profiles are based on credible recommendations, much more curated, above and beyond schools, jobs, and a resume. Users recommend people they trust by answering questions like Who would you hack a product MVP together with over a weekend? or Who are designers you'd trust to benchmark design talent? or Who are investors that have incredible empathy for founders?, etc. We are building the trust graph of the world: who trusts whom and in what context.

Souffle Club's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Souffle Club, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Souffle Club

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Profiles based on credible recommendations, beyond resumes

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

We're building a LinkedIn alternative where profiles surface trusted recommendations instead of just resumes or job titles. Users recommend people by answering specific questions about who they'd work with or trust in different contexts, creating a global trust graph.

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

We're based in San Francisco, CA with a remote team. After YC, we'd continue to be based in San Francisco and maintain a remote setup.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the hub for tech and startups, which helps us connect with users, investors, and talent. Our remote structure allows flexibility and access to skills beyond the city.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Souffle Club YC application?

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