UpLink YC Application

Summer 2022Acquired

UpLink 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: 4
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2022

Founders

Alexander MaherFounder
Alexander GrantFounder
Brady OchseFounder
Nicholas YarmeschFounder

What UpLink does

UpLink's founding team worked as auditors and software engineers at PwC where they saw firsthand how difficult it was to collect thousands of documents from clients. Alex Maher and Alex Grant met working on PwC’s big data analytics platform, scaling it from 0 to 20k users globally. Brady and Nick met while studying CS at a top 5 public university, but still insist they were self-taught. They were, by far, the top developers on Alex Maher’s team before starting UpLink. Together they ran Dycom's field systems segment, supporting 15k users.

UpLink's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

UpLink

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Document Collection Software for Accountants, Auditors, and Lawyers

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

We built a tool that helps auditors, accountants, and lawyers collect thousands of documents from clients efficiently. It simplifies and organizes the entire document collection process, cutting down the back-and-forth that makes audits and legal reviews slow and painful.

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

We live in Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Washington, DC; and remotely around the US. After YC, we would stay distributed but primarily operate from these locations.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We formed the company where the founders live and have roots. We value being close to clients in DC and access to tech talent in Florida and remote.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real UpLink YC application?

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