Aplicación YC de Crunched
Crunched pasó por Y Combinator en el batch Fall 2025 como una empresa de B2B. Abajo: qué hace la empresa, quién la fundó y su aplicación a YC, reconstruida pregunta por pregunta en el formulario real de YC.
- Batch YC
- Fall 2025
- Industria
- B2BFinance and Accounting
- Tamaño del equipo
- 5
- Estado
- Active
- Lanzado
- 2025
Fundadores
Philip BorgeFounder
Lars Gjardar MusæusFounder
Michael SakowskiFounder
Markus SkagemoFounder
Lo que hace Crunched
Crunched is the Excel AI analyst for power users - in consulting, investment banking, and private equity. It error-checks workbooks end-to-end, builds models from scratch, and handles grunt work like extracting and linking data from IMs to template models - all within Excel so teams can review and iterate as usual. Agents struggle with tabular data - getting reliable, multi-step execution over thousands of interlinked formulas, sheets, and ranges is hard. Making Crunched good enough for people who live in Excel means knowing the pain points deeply. Michael and Philip has 10,000+ hours in Excel across consulting and finance. Markus and Lars bring deep expertise in scaling AI and enterprise solutions. We've had easy access to first customers and are already live with firms across six European countries - we now plan to expand into the US. With >1bn total Excel users, we focus on the top 2%, highest-value Excel users globally. We're solving one pain point at a time to create a product that doesn't just look good in a demo but actually works in production. Excel is here to stay, but the way experts model is fundamentally changing - with Crunched.
Aplicación YC de Crunched, reconstruida
Solicitud de Y Combinator
Crunched, batch Fall 2025. Las preguntas reales del formulario, respondidas con datos públicos.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Crunched
Excel AI analyst for Power Users
We built Crunched to be the Excel AI analyst for power users in consulting, investment banking, and private equity. It error-checks complex workbooks end-to-end, builds financial models from scratch, and automates tedious tasks like extracting and linking data from IMs to template models - all inside Excel so users keep their existing workflow and control. Excel AI is hard because agents struggle with multi-step reasoning over thousands of interlinked formulas and sheets; we know these pain points intimately because Michael and Philip have spent 10,000+ hours in Excel in finance and consulting, and Markus and Lars know how to scale AI in enterprise workflows. We focus on the top 2% of Excel users who need reliable, production-grade assistance, not flashy demos.
The founders are currently spread across multiple locations; we don't have a single base now. After YC, we plan to establish a company presence in the US to expand there.
We are remote because our founding team is distributed across Europe. We plan to expand into the US market after YC since most of the top Excel power users and early customers live there.
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Preguntas Frecuentes
¿Es esta la aplicación YC real de Crunched?
No. Y Combinator mantiene privadas las aplicaciones enviadas. Esta es una reconstrucción: las preguntas reales del formulario de YC, respondidas a partir de los datos públicos de Crunched (notas de lanzamiento, antecedentes de fundadores, descripción del producto). Muestra cómo una empresa como Crunched se presentaría a YC, no el texto que enviaron.
¿En qué batch de YC estuvo Crunched?
Crunched formó parte del batch Fall 2025 de Y Combinator.
¿Quién fundó Crunched?
Crunched fue fundado por Philip Borge, Lars Gjardar Musæus, Michael Sakowski, Markus Skagemo.
¿A qué se dedica Crunched?
Excel AI analyst for Power Users
¿Cómo leo la aplicación completa reconstruida?
Crea una cuenta gratuita de Round Funded. La versión completa de 26 respuestas de la aplicación de Crunched, y de cada otro batch de YC, está en YC Insights.
