Velos YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Velos went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Daniel Bassett

What Velos does

Velos helps non-technical operations teams automate complex, manual back-office tasks with AI workers instead of overseas teams. Unlike traditional robotic process automation (RPA) platforms like UiPath, Velos automations use machine learning to reliably handle ambiguities in their tasks, eliminating the need for an army of maintenance engineers and consultants to build and maintain your automations. We're automating the repetitive work people hate to do.

Velos's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Velos, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Velos

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Platform to automate manual back-office work

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

We built Velos to help non-technical operations teams automate complex, manual back-office tasks with AI workers instead of relying on overseas teams. Unlike traditional RPA platforms, our automations use machine learning to handle ambiguous cases reliably without needing armies of consultants and maintenance engineers. The product automates repetitive, time-consuming workflows people don't want to do.

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 will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the center of tech innovation and where we connected as a team. Being here puts us close to customers and investors, and it's where we can find the top engineering talent we need.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Velos YC application?

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