Spokn YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Spokn went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 20
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Fawzy Abu SeifFounder
Mariel DavisFounder

What Spokn does

Spokn makes it easy for People and Comms teams to make videos starring their own employees and leaders - no editing skills or special equipment necessary. In minutes, you can create videos that feel as engaging as TikTok, and share them anywhere: Slack/Teams, your LMS, intranet, careers page, or job offer emails. Companies like InterContinental Hotels, Coinbase, Twilio, Opendoor, Udemy, SiriusXM, Gong and more use Spokn to create engaging videos for their learning & development, internal comms, recognition, DEI and employer branding.

Spokn's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Spokn, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Spokn

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-powered video platform for Internal Comms and HR

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

We built a platform for People and Communications teams to create videos featuring their employees and leaders without any editing skills or special equipment. Users can make engaging, TikTok-style videos in minutes and share them internally through Slack, Teams, LMS, or intranet. The idea is to help teams communicate in a more authentic and scalable way.

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

We live in New York, NY, and the company is based here with a remote team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where we started and have our team. We are remote, which lets us hire talent broadly, but HQ remains in NYC for coordination and culture.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Spokn YC application?

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