Spherecast YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Spherecast went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2024
Industry: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 7
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Leon HergertFounder
Paul DietrichFounder
Pascal SchindlerFounder

What Spherecast does

Spherecast is building Agnes, the AI Supply Chain Manager for Consumer Goods. Agnes decides what to produce, where to make it, and how to move it through factories, warehouses, and channels - simulating thousands of options in seconds and executing the best plan. We are building Agnes to shape the physical flow of goods in the world, turning it into something as programmable as code. When we succeed, every consumer product you touch will run on the Spherecast stack - planned in the Spherecast OS, executed over Spherecast Rails, and optimized by the shared Spherecast Network. Oracle turned atoms into bits. Spherecast turns bits back to atoms, but globally optimized. Be part of the next $T company.

Spherecast's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Spherecast, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Spherecast

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Supply Chain Manager for CPG

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

We're building Agnes, an AI system that plans production, manufacturing, and logistics for consumer packaged goods. Agnes simulates thousands of supply chain options in seconds and picks the best plan to execute across factories, warehouses, and distribution channels. The goal is to make global supply chain flows programmable and highly optimized.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here as well. After YC, we will continue to operate from San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is based and where the supply chain software ecosystem is strongest. Being here gives us access to technical talent and proximity to potential partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Spherecast YC application?

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