Suger YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Suger went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 50
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Chengjun YuanFounder
Jon YooFounder

What Suger does

The cloud marketplaces on AWS, Azure, and GCP have become the App Store for B2B software products. It’s growing close to 100% year-over-year since it gives software sellers access to cloud budgets and makes procurement 40% faster. The core problem is the cloud marketplace is hard to navigate and requires an upfront technical investment without knowing the expected ROI. Suger eliminates the need to reinvent the wheel with your own engineering resource or spend a fortune on consulting-based solutions.

Suger's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Suger, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Suger

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Salesforce for cloud marketplaces on AWS, Azure, GCP

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

We built Suger to help B2B software sellers get found and close deals on cloud marketplaces like AWS, Azure, and GCP. These marketplaces are growing fast but are confusing and require upfront engineering to integrate with. Our product simplifies listing management, automates procurement workflows, and provides sales teams visibility into pipeline so they don't have to build custom tools or hire expensive consultants.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, and Suger is based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the cloud software ecosystem and B2B SaaS customers are concentrated, so it's easier to engage buyers and sellers and recruit talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Suger YC application?

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