Candidature YC de Crunched
Crunched a été sélectionné par Y Combinator dans le cadre du batch Fall 2025 en tant qu'entreprise B2B. Ci-dessous : ce que fait l'entreprise, qui l'a fondée, et sa candidature à YC, reconstruite question par question dans le vrai formulaire YC.
- Batch YC
- Fall 2025
- Secteur d'activité
- B2BFinance and Accounting
- Taille de l'équipe
- 5
- Statut
- Active
- Lancé
- 2025
Fondateurs
Philip BorgeFounder
Lars Gjardar MusæusFounder
Michael SakowskiFounder
Markus SkagemoFounder
Ce que fait 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.
Candidature YC de Crunched, reconstruite
Candidature Y Combinator
Crunched, promotion Fall 2025. Les vraies questions de candidature, répondues à partir de données publiques.
- 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.
21 réponses supplémentaires dans la candidature complète
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Questions fréquemment posées
Est-ce la vraie candidature YC de Crunched ?
Non. Y Combinator garde les candidatures soumises privées. Ceci est une reconstruction : les vraies questions du formulaire YC, répondues à partir des données publiques de Crunched (notes de lancement, parcours des fondateurs, description du produit). Cela montre comment une entreprise comme Crunched se présenterait à YC, pas le texte qu'ils ont soumis.
À quel batch YC Crunched appartenait-il ?
Crunched faisait partie du batch Fall 2025 de Y Combinator.
Qui a fondé Crunched ?
Crunched a été fondé par Philip Borge, Lars Gjardar Musæus, Michael Sakowski, Markus Skagemo.
Que fait Crunched ?
Excel AI analyst for Power Users
Comment lire la candidature complète reconstruite ?
Créez un compte Round Funded gratuit. La version complète de la candidature de Crunched en 26 réponses, et de chaque autre promotion YC, se trouve dans YC Insights.
