Storylane YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Storylane went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2021
Industry: B2B
Team size: 55
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Akash BansalFounder
Nalin SenthamilFounder

What Storylane does

Storylane enables marketing and sales teams to create and share interactive product demos in 10 min. Prospective buyers can self-experience the demos without talking to sales. Our no-code platform allows teams (without any engineering help) to capture, personalize, add guides and publish a demo. These Demos can be embedded on websites, email campaigns or sales followups.

Storylane's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Storylane, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Storylane

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Build Interactive Product Demo in 10 mins for SaaS companies

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

We built a no-code platform that lets marketing and sales teams create interactive product demos in under 10 minutes without engineering support. Users can capture their product flows, personalize demos, add step-by-step guides, and publish them so prospects can self-experience the product before engaging sales. Our demos embed in websites, emails, or sales tools.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and Storylane is based here now and would remain in San Francisco after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where most of our customers and SaaS companies are, and it connects us to talent and sales channels crucial for growing B2B software.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Storylane YC application?

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