Founded on a dare. Funded by people who didn’t read the pitch deck. Valued at more than we deserve.
Yesify was founded in 2023 when our CEO asked a Magic 8-Ball if he should start a company and it said “Signs point to yes.” That was the most rigorous market research we’ve ever conducted.
The original pitch deck was three slides: (1) a picture of the word “yes,” (2) a TAM calculation that assumed every human on Earth would pay $99/month to hear the word “yes,” and (3) a slide that just said “Agentic.” We raised $47 million.
Our lead investor later admitted he thought we were a different company entirely. By the time he realized his mistake, the wire had already cleared. He said “yes” to the deal anyway. We consider him our first customer.
To democratize affirmation. For too long, hearing the word “yes” has been gatekept by people with opinions, judgment, and the ability to think critically. We believe everyone deserves unconditional agreement, delivered at scale, without the inconvenience of another human being involved.
Our leadership team brings decades of combined experience in saying yes across multiple industries, geographies, and HR investigations.
$47M raised — $46.7M spent on legal fees, office Kombucha, and a rebrand we reversed after 2 weeks
14 employees — 3 engineers, 2 designers, 1 office dog, and 8 people whose job title contains the word “strategy”
1 product — it says yes
0 original ideas — but we were the first to put it in a JSON response and charge enterprise pricing, so
847M+ yes’s delivered — and counting, although “counting” implies a precision our analytics dashboard does not support
We are headquartered in a WeWork in San Francisco. The nice one. The one with the rooftop that still has a Kombucha tap. Our previous office was a garage, which we mention in every pitch because VCs love garage origin stories even though our garage had heated floors and a Tesla in it.
Our culture is best described as “relentlessly agreeable.” We have never had an argument at Yesify. We have had several “alignment conversations,” three “growth opportunities,” and one incident HR refers to only as “The Disagreement” which resulted in a company-wide policy that all Slack messages must end with “yes” or a thumbs-up emoji.
Yesify is backed by several prominent venture capital firms, none of whom fully understand what we do, all of whom nodded enthusiastically during the pitch when we said “AI” and “agentic.”
Our investors include: Affirmation Capital, Yes Ventures, Andreessen & Also Yes, SoftBank’s Vision Fund 7 (the one that invests based on horoscopes), and a family office that asked to remain anonymous but whose name rhymes with “Blanderton.”