Tusk YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Tusk 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Marcel TanFounder
Sohil KshirsagarFounder

What Tusk does

Tusk (YC W24) is an AI agent that helps developers generate unit and integration tests with codebase context. Tusk sits in CI and provides automatic coverage whenever software engineers raise a PR. Engineering teams use Tusk to prevent critical regressions while increasing test coverage.

Tusk's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Tusk

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI agent that generates unit and integration tests

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

We built Tusk to automatically generate unit and integration tests using AI, with full awareness of the codebase context. It integrates into CI and provides test coverage every time an engineer raises a PR. This helps teams catch regressions early and increase test coverage without manual effort.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and will keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where our engineering and early users are. Staying here helps us stay close to developer communities and product teams who use Tusk.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Tusk YC application?

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