- Weave is a telephone company that integrates with a small business's CRM system
- They also incorporate text messaging and emailing into their system
- When a call comes in, all customer data pops up on the computer screen, allowing for easy communication and revenue generation
- They are currently focused on the dental community and have 230 paying clients
- They use open source technologies and have a scalable modular system
- They hope to be part of Y Combinator.

Today, Weave, which was part of YC’s W14 batch, is going public. This is their YC application video from 2014.

When Weave applied to YC, they supplied dentists with an all-in-one customer communications and management system. But their vision was always a larger one. Today, the company still supports dental offices, but also optometrists, vets, and other medical offices with similar capabilities. Tens of thousands of professional offices around the United States and Canada run their businesses using Weave.

Read about their journey at https://blog.ycombinator.com/weave-w14-is-going-public/.

Hi Y Combinator, my name is Brandon Rodman, I'm the CEO of Weave.

My name is Clint Berry, I'm the CTO of Weave.

And my name is Jared Rodman, I'm the COO of Weave.

At its core, Weave is a telephone company.

What makes us different than all the other telephone companies out there is that we link up our telephone service with a small business's CRM.

We also incorporate text messaging and emailing into our system.

When somebody calls into a business using our phone system, all of the patient or customer data will pop up automatically on the computer screen and give them multiple opportunities to communicate with those patients, to interact with them.

It also identifies what they can do on that phone call to generate more revenue.

So far we are in the dental community, that's the vertical we chose to start in.

We exited a beta in June of this year and we already have 230 paying clients.

We're going to eclipse 1000000 in overall revenue for the year.

As far as technology goes, we love open source technologies that we've, all the way from the communication stack to the software we install on the client's computers, we use open source for everything.

Our initial alpha version wasn't very modular, wasn't scalable, but we've changed all that.

We reworked the whole system so that we have an extremely scalable modular system and some great developers here doing agile development, adding features on a weekly basis.


Speaker 0: Hi Y Combinator, my name is Brandon Rodman, I'm the CEO of Weave.

Speaker 1: My name is Clint Berry, I'm the CTO of Weave.

Speaker 2: And my name is Jared Rodman, I'm the COO of Weave.

Speaker 0: At its core, Weave is a telephone company. What makes us different than all the other telephone companies out there is that we link up our telephone service with a small business's CRM. We also incorporate text messaging and emailing into our system. When somebody calls into a business using our phone system, all of the patient or customer data will pop up automatically on the computer screen and give them multiple opportunities to communicate with those patients, to interact with them. It also identifies what they can do on that phone call to generate more revenue.

Speaker 2: So far we are in the dental community, that's the vertical we chose to start in. We exited a beta in June of this year and we already have 230 paying clients. We're going to eclipse 1000000 in overall revenue for the year. So we're pretty excited.

Speaker 1: As far as technology goes, we love open source technologies that we've, all the way from the communication stack to the software we install on the client's computers, we use open source for everything. Our initial alpha version wasn't very modular, wasn't scalable, but we've changed all that. We reworked the whole system so that we have an extremely scalable modular system and some great developers here doing agile development, adding features on a weekly basis.

Speaker 0: Cool. We hope you guys will consider us. I hope we can be a part of Y Combinator.

Speaker 2: Thanks. Thanks.

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Weave's Application Video for YC W14