Tetra YC Application

Winter 2017Acquired

Tetra went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2017 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 2017
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2016

Founders

Jon GoldsmithFounder
Nikolas LioliosFounder/CTO

What Tetra does

Tetra uses AI to take notes on phone calls, to help you focus, remember the details, and keep your team in sync.

Tetra's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Tetra, Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Tetra

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI notetaker for phone calls

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

We are building an AI-powered note-taking tool that records phone calls, summarizes them, and highlights important information. It helps users focus on conversations and keeps teams aligned by making call details easy to recall and share.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and plan to keep the company based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in San Francisco because that's where we live and where the startup ecosystem and potential customers are concentrated.

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 Tetra YC application?

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