Weave YC Application

Summer 2014Inactive

Weave went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2014 batch as a Consumer 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 2014
Industry: ConsumerJob and Career Services
Team size: 11
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2014

Founders

Brian Ma
Elpizo Choi

What Weave does

Weave delivers a personalized professional introduction every week (YCS14) Follow us:) Twitter: @startweaving, #startweaving Facebook: weavenetworking Website: Email: Happy Weaving! The Weave Team

Weave's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Weave, Summer 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Weave

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-assisted professional networking

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

Weave delivers a personalized professional introduction every week. Our product scans user data and connections to suggest targeted introductions between professionals who could benefit from connecting, saving users the time and effort of network building.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is and where the professional networking ecosystem and AI talent are concentrated, making it the best place to build and grow Weave.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Weave YC application?

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