Willow YC Application

Spring 2025Active

Willow went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2025 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: Spring 2025
Industry: Consumer
Team size: 7
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Allan GuoFounder

What Willow does

Willow is an AI dictation app that lets you type with your voice. Built to 4x the productivity of anyone spending too much time on email, docs, and AI prompting workflows. We’re Mac-only for now. You can try it free at WillowVoice.com

Willow's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Willow, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Willow

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The voice interface replacing your keyboard

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

We built Willow, an AI dictation app for Mac that lets people type with their voice. It's designed to make writing emails, docs, and prompts for AI much faster - up to four times faster than typing. The app turns speech into text, optimizing for accuracy and speed in professional workflows.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're here because San Francisco is where the best tech talent and early users for productivity tools are. Being close to YC's network matters a lot too.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Willow YC application?

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