Veles YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Veles 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: B2BSales
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Simon OoleyFounder
Patrick KoperwasFounder

What Veles does

You closed your first few deals on handshakes and Stripe links. Now a customer wants a ramp-up, custom terms, or annual billing - and suddenly you're duct-taping spreadsheets to your CRM. Most CPQ tools are built for 500-person sales orgs with a dedicated RevOps team. Veles is built for you. AI agents handle quoting, approvals, and deal docs end-to-end so you can run a real sales motion without hiring a deal desk. It's free for founders just getting started, and pricing scales with the number of active contracts you manage - so we only grow when you do. No CRM consultant, no six-month rollout. Just connect Salesforce or HubSpot and start closing.

Veles's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Veles

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

CPQ for humans and agents

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

We built Veles to handle complex sales quotes and approvals for small to medium sales teams without dedicated RevOps. Our AI agents automate quoting, approvals, and deal docs end-to-end so teams can run a real sales process without hiring a specialized deal desk.

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

We live and work in Santa Barbara, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose Santa Barbara because it's where the founders live and work well together. It's close enough to tech hubs and offers a great environment to build a remote-friendly company.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Veles YC application?

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