Speck

Speck YC Application

Winter 2024Acquired

Speck went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry
B2BProductivity
Team size
3
Status
Acquired
Launched
2024

Founders

  • Raghav Pillai
    Raghav PillaiFounder

What Speck does

Speck helps professionals in back-to-back calls on their meeting tasks. It automates pre-call research, listens to every word, learns, and creates meeting notes, follow-ups, action items based on how you do them.

Speck's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Speck, Winter 2024 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

Speck

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Notetaker that automates all your admin work

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

We built Speck to help professionals with back-to-back calls automate their meeting tasks. It does pre-call research, listens during the meeting, learns how you take notes, and then automatically creates meeting notes, follow-ups, and action items in your style.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are rooted and where we can best recruit, meet customers, and access the resources YC offers.

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 Speck YC application?

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

What YC batch was Speck in?

Speck was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2024 batch.

Who founded Speck?

Speck was founded by Raghav Pillai.

What does Speck do?

AI Notetaker that automates all your admin work

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

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

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