Unlayer YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Unlayer went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 35
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Adeel RazaFounder
Muhammad Umair SiddiqueFounder

What Unlayer does

Unlayer makes embeddable email and web editing software. We provide the essential editing tools that companies need to create successful marketing and engagement campaigns. If you want to add a rich email template editor, web page builder, or popup builder into your application, try Unlayer.

Unlayer's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Unlayer, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Unlayer

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Embeddable email and web editing software

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

We build embeddable editors for email templates, web pages, and popups that companies can integrate directly into their applications. Our product lets marketing and product teams create rich, customizable content without leaving their app or writing code.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has a vibrant developer and startup community and gives us access to talent and customers who need flexible editing solutions. Being here helps us stay close to partners and grow our engineering team.

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 Unlayer YC application?

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