Tailornova/Couturme YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Tailornova/Couturme went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2B
Team size: 9
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Yuliya RaquelFounder/CEO
Don StraubFounder

What Tailornova/Couturme does

PatternFast helps fashion companies and brands design and launch new collections in minutes instead of months. We save brands 90% of the time and 95% of the costs associated with the tedious, time-consuming, and complex process of garment design and development. Our AI software enables the instant design of over hundred billion of unique styles, complete with production-ready documentation, patterns, and automated sizing.

Tailornova/Couturme's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Tailornova/Couturme, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Tailornova/Couturme

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI for Instantly Manufacturable Fashion

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

We build PatternFast, an AI-powered tool that lets fashion companies design and launch new collections in minutes, not months. It generates hundreds of billions of unique styles with production-ready patterns and size grading, cutting through the usual time and cost of garment design and development.

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

We live in San Francisco and have team members working remotely. After YC, the company will remain based in San Francisco with a distributed team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is home to tech talent and investors in AI and fashion tech, where we can be close to other startups and potential partners. Remote work helps us tap into diverse skills while keeping flexibility.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Tailornova/Couturme YC application?

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