Voiceops YC Application

Winter 2017Active

Voiceops went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2017 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 2017
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 10
Status: Active
Launched: 2016

Founders

Ethan BarhydtFounder/CEO

What Voiceops does

The richest data source about customers - their conversations - is the least accessible. Their mission is to provide easy access to customer conversations, and make voice data queryable. Their product analyzes the content of sales and support conversations and generates insights on phrases that maximize successful outcomes.

Voiceops's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Voiceops, Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Voiceops

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

We help B2C companies learn from every customer interaction

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

We analyze sales and support calls for B2C companies to extract actionable insights from every customer conversation. Our product identifies phrases that correlate with successful outcomes and makes voice data searchable and easy to work with, turning raw calls into concrete business intelligence.

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

We live and are based in New York, NY, and plan to stay here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where we built our product and first customers. It's a sales and support hub with many B2C companies, so being local allows us to stay close to our market and keep improving based on direct feedback.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Voiceops YC application?

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