Terrakotta YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Terrakotta went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2024
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Vincent WilsonFounder
Kusiima BoswellCo-Founder
Gabriel WilsonFounder

What Terrakotta does

Terrakotta is a power-dialer that lets sales reps leave AI-generated voicemails. Our first customers are Commercial Real Estate brokerages that use Terrakotta to clone their brokers voices, dial prospects and when no one answers, leave an A/B tested, personalized voicemail that gets a callback.

Terrakotta's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Terrakotta, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Terrakotta

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI platform for phone-first sellers

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

We built an AI power-dialer that clones sales reps' voices to leave personalized, A/B tested voicemails when calls go unanswered. Our first users are commercial real estate brokerages using it to get callbacks from prospects faster.

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

We live in Seattle, WA, and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Seattle is where the founders live and have their network. It also lets us tap into local sales and AI talent relevant to our product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Terrakotta YC application?

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