Unthread YC Application

Summer 2022Active

Unthread went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2022
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 7
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Tom BachantFounder
Jake McCloskeyFounder

What Unthread does

Unthread is an AI-powered helpdesk built natively into Slack. We help companies to automate the creation and resolution of tickets right from a Slack channel. We work with IT, HR, and CX teams at some of the world's largest companies to resolve tickets instantly using AI.

Unthread's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Unthread, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Unthread

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automate support ops natively in Slack

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

We made an AI-powered helpdesk that lives inside Slack. It automates creating and resolving tickets right from Slack channels, so IT, HR, and customer experience teams don't have to switch apps or manually triage issues. The AI handles common requests and frees teams to focus on tougher problems.

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

We're based in New York, NY and the company will remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We work closely with teams based in large companies here, and New York gives us access to customers and talent we want to build the product with. We're all located here now, so it's natural to keep the company here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Unthread YC application?

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