Thorntale YC Application

Winter 2024Inactive

Thorntale 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: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2024

Founders

Dori WilsonFounder
Ellen HuiFounder
John StimacFounder

What Thorntale does

Thorntale is the easiest (and prettiest) way to create your next presentation. We've built a super capable AI assistant that can directly edit your slides, and coupled it with an advanced slide design system to keep things beautiful and professional. Thorntale AI is designed to work alongside you as an AI collaborator. It can modify slide design and content, as well as give suggestions on what to improve to make your points clearer for your audience. We've also built tons of enterprise level features into Thorntale, like integrated data connections and send as email.

Thorntale's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Thorntale

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The world's best presentation editor, powered by AI.

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

We are building Thorntale, a presentation editor with a built-in AI assistant that directly edits slides and improves content and design. It helps users create clearer, more professional presentations by suggesting changes and automatically adjusting slides. We also include enterprise features like data integration and email sending right from the app.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where the startup ecosystem is strongest. Being here keeps us close to customers and engineering talent.

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 Thorntale YC application?

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