Syncly YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Syncly 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: B2BMarketing
Team size: 15
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Joseph LeeFounder
Jongsoo KeumFounder
Kwan YoonFounder

What Syncly does

Syncly is an AI-native social listening platform that analyzes social content from text to video. Syncly extracts content, creator, and consumer insights from audio, visuals, and on-screen context, not just captions and comments, across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and more. From enterprise leaders like Kimberly-Clark and Clorox to fast-growing brands like Neuro, teams use Syncly to get full visibility across every social channel and make faster, smarter decisions.

Syncly's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Syncly

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Social listening for the video era

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

We built Syncly, an AI-native social listening platform that extracts insights from video content across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube - analyzing audio, visuals, and on-screen context instead of just text. It helps marketing teams see what's trending, who influencers are, and how audiences react, faster and more completely than traditional tools.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the team lives and where our customers and partners are concentrated. Being here keeps us close to talent and market feedback.

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 Syncly YC application?

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