Uplane YC Application

Fall 2025Active

Uplane went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2025 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: Fall 2025
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 19
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Julius KörfgenCo-Founder & CEO
Marvin Abdel-MassihFounder
Lukas VollmerFounder

What Uplane does

Uplane replaces marketing agencies with AI. We generate hundreds of ads with matching landing pages and steer the ad spend across channels like Meta, Google, LinkedIn and others. By connecting to CRM and ERP data, Uplane learns what drives profits and continuously improves campaigns. Companies waste billions on bad ads, mismatched landing pages, and poor budget allocation. Uplane fixes this by replacing a patchwork of agencies, spreadsheets, and siloed tools with one self-improving system. The result: Higher ROAS for enterprises and effortless, expert-level marketing for SMBs.

Uplane's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Uplane, Fall 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Uplane

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Replace marketing agencies with AI

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

We build an AI-driven platform that generates hundreds of ads paired with matching landing pages and automatically steers ad spend across channels like Meta, Google, and LinkedIn. By connecting CRM and ERP data, the system learns what drives profit and continuously optimizes campaigns without manual intervention.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is based and where the concentration of marketing and advertising technology customers and partners is highest. Staying here keeps us close to talent and potential enterprise clients.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Uplane YC application?

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