Anna SunAmy Yan
You

Anna and Amy are saving a seat for Nowadays' first designer.

The problem

Planning large events by hand means phoning vendors for quotes.

Nowadays makes an AI platform that plans corporate meetings and events end to end.

The people

They are sisters, and Anna talked Amy into quitting her Google job to start the company together.

  • Anna Sun · CEO

    • Product manager and software engineer at Datadog, DoorDash and Amazon
    • Studied computer science at MIT, where she was class president
    • Organized large events, once picking up 2,000 McDonald's McNuggets herself
  • Amy Yan · COO

    • Strategy and operations roles at Google, Meta and McKinsey
    • Graduated from Johns Hopkins, where she was class president

So far

Google, Airbnb and BlackRock are among its customers.

$2M seed from YC, Basis Set, Hike and angels, December 2024.

Your seat

Admit one · Nowadays

Founding Product Designer

Where
San Francisco
Salary
$100k to $150k
Equity
0.25% to 1.25% equity
With
Anna and Amy
Stage
Seed
Team
11 people
Writes code
No
Backed by
Y Combinator S23
YouApply →

Sources: techcrunch.com, ycombinator.com