Crunched YC 申请

Fall 2025Active

Crunched 在 Fall 2025 批次的 Y Combinator 中作为一家 B2B 公司进行过。以下是：公司做什么、谁创立了它，以及其 YC 申请，按照真实 YC 表格逐题重建。

YC 批次: Fall 2025
行业: B2BFinance and Accounting
团队规模: 5
状态: Active
已发布: 2025

创始人

Philip BorgeFounder
Lars Gjardar MusæusFounder
Michael SakowskiFounder
Markus SkagemoFounder

Crunched 做什么

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.

Crunched 的 YC 申请，重建版

Y Combinator 申请

Crunched，Fall 2025 期。来自公开数据的真实申请问题解答。

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Crunched

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Excel AI analyst for Power Users

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

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.

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

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.

Explain your decision regarding location.

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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Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference 包含在完整版中。创建免费账户即可在 YC Insights 中打开，紧邻每个其他 YC 批次。

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常见问题解答

这是 Crunched 的真实 YC 申请吗？

不是。Y Combinator 对提交的申请保密。这是重建版：使用 Crunched 的公开数据（发布笔记、创始人背景、产品描述）回答真实的 YC 表格问题。它展示了像 Crunched 这样的公司会如何向 YC 自我介绍，而不是他们提交的文本。

Crunched 是哪个 YC 批次的？

Crunched 是 Y Combinator Fall 2025 批次的成员。

谁创立了 Crunched？

Crunched 由 Philip Borge, Lars Gjardar Musæus, Michael Sakowski, Markus Skagemo 创立。

Crunched 做什么？