Taskade YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Taskade went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2019
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2019

Founders

Stan ChangFounder
John XieFounder

What Taskade does

Taskade is the execution layer for ideas. One prompt becomes a live app that thinks and collaborates with your team. Build live dashboards, websites, and tools that connect with your workspace in real time. Every workflow automates itself. Every project becomes a live database. Every agent plans, acts, and learns inside your workspace. No code. No setup. Just creation. Taskade Genesis turns work into living systems. Projects remember. Agents learn. Automations keep everything in motion. Build once, and your workspace evolves as your data and team grow. Your workspace is the backend. The interface builds itself. Software should be built by everyone. Build without permission.

Taskade's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Taskade, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Taskade

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

One living workspace for teams.

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

We build Taskade Genesis, a workspace where one prompt instantly creates a live app that thinks and collaborates with your team. It automates workflows, turns projects into live databases, and supports agents that plan, act, and learn - all with no code or setup.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is based and where the productivity and collaboration tech community thrives. Being here keeps us close to early users and potential partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Taskade YC application?

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