Tandem YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Tandem went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BOffice Management
Team size: 22
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Sean Miller
Brendan Suh
Rafi Sands
Kristen Gallogly

What Tandem does

The pandemic reduced office use nationwide by 50%, and tenants have been left to deal with highly inflexible, long term lease agreements that don’t fit today’s office use patterns. The traditional brokerage model works great for big spaces and long terms. But when you want to talk smaller units, short term lengths, shared and common areas, you’re out of luck. Tandem is an AI-native office leasing platform. We’re using technology to unlock an easier leasing process. Our AI co-pilot provides a white-glove-quality B2B office search experience, with a fraction of the human labor typically required. Today we’re serving three primary markets - NY, SF and BOS. We’ve helped more than 500 companies find great office space and have seen double-digit month-over-month growth.

Tandem's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Tandem, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Tandem

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-native office leasing broker

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

We built an AI-native platform to simplify office leasing for tenants who need flexible, smaller spaces with short-term leases. Our AI co-pilot handles most of the search and negotiation, cutting the human effort typically required and making it easier to find and lease office space in markets like New York, San Francisco, and Boston.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company is based here and will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is a natural base because it's one of our core markets and where the founding team lives and works. It lets us stay close to tenants and brokers to refine the product directly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Tandem YC application?

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