Top 10 Templates from Y Combinator Startups

Heads down building a startup? Skip the clutter of multiple tools and streamline your startup with Notion. Our curated collection of templates, created by YC alumni, like Vanta, Deel, Mixpanel, Plane, and others. It covers everything you need to succeed. Manage your notes, CRM, project tasks, and marketing efforts all in one place. These proven templates are designed to help you focus on what truly matters—building your company. Let Notion be your all-in-one solution for a seamless and efficient startup experience.

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Hear what a a few YC alumni have to say about using Notion -

"Not everyone is an expert at creating visually appealing docs. We rely on Notion's formatting to keep our content consistent and easy to understand." - Meltem Kuran, Head of Growth @ Deel (W19)
"Our old engineering wiki was a mess and barely updated, which was almost worse than no one using it. Now that it's on Notion — along with rest of our work and planning — it's easy to use it every day." - Vijay Iyengar, Director of Product @ Mixpanel (S09)
"We log notes from every single customer conversation, user interview, or feedback session into a consolidated Notion workspace so we can ensure we’re building products based on customer needs." - Frank Lee, Co-Founder & CEO @ Inari (S23)

1Plane's Idea Generation

Plane (W17) uses Notion to effectively manage their idea generation process, ensuring a structured and organized workflow. This approach encourages capturing a wide range of ideas by having participants state the problem and record a Loom video to provide both verbal and written context. Ideas from various team members are then compiled and discussed. This systematic process ensures thorough exploration of the ideas, fostering creativity and collaboration within the team

A template preview for Plane's Idea Generation

2Alloy's Company Handbook

Alloy (W20) leverages Notion as a versatile and collaborative platform to effectively develop and maintain their internal processes. By utilizing Notion, Alloy ensures that critical information and guidelines are easily accessible to all team members, fostering a cohesive and well-organized work environment

A template preview for Alloy's Company Handbook

3Doppler's Company OKRs

Doppler (W19) leverages Notion as an all-encompassing platform to efficiently create and manage their Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). By using Notion, Doppler ensures that their goals are clearly defined, systematically tracked, and aligned across the entire organization

A template preview for Doppler's Company OKRs

4Mixpanel's daily standup & tasks

To stay on track, Mixpanel's (S09) engineering teams meet twice a week to recap progress and plan ahead. Use their template to give your whole team a searchable record of meetings as they work through complex projects.

A template preview for Mixpanel's daily standup & tasks

5Nango's Investor CRM

Nango (W23) uses Notion to stay up-to-date with investors by maintaining a detailed and structured Investors CRM. This centralized database includes key information such as investor type, geographical location, status, priority, partner name, typical check size, and comments. By organizing data in this manner, Nango ensures efficient tracking of investor interactions, managing relationships, and monitoring investment statuses. Real-time updates and comprehensive records allow the team to stay informed and maintain effective communication with investors

A template preview for Nango's Investor CRM

6Inari's Customer Sales + Feedback CRM

Manage your startup sales and product development process with this CRM template from Inari (S23). Manage leads and customer interactions, track customer problems, then customize your own properties and workflows.

A template preview for Inari's Customer Sales + Feedback CRM

7Webflow’s Public Roadmap

Webflow’s (S13) Public Roadmap template offers an interactive, transparent view of your product’s development journey. Track and showcase feature progress, votes, and team assignments in a comprehensive, public-facing format.

A template preview for Webflow’s Public Roadmap

8Vanta's feedback-to-feature framework

Close the loop on customer feedback and ensure your product evolves in line with your customers' needs. Created by Vanta (W18), this template will help guide product decisions that are grounded in real customer feedback. By maintaining a comprehensive database of customer profiles and a dynamic repository of feedback and requested features, you'll be able to track trends, prioritize development efforts, and communicate directly with your customer base.

A template preview for Vanta's feedback-to-feature framework

9Deel's press release brief

Deel (W19) has transformed the way companies hire, pay and manage contractors and employees in over 150 countries. They use Notion as a single source of truth across the entire company. Their Comms team built this template to stay on top of tight PR deadlines and drive clarity around what needs to be done.

A template preview for Deel's press release brief

10Loops' Help Center

Loops (W22) uses Notion to effectively host their FAQs and guides, maintaining a structured and organized Help Center. This approach ensures that users can easily navigate through sections like Getting Started, Account, Creating Emails, and Deliverability, with clear, visually enhanced topics. Real-time updates and seamless integration with tools like Google Docs and Asana ensure that information is always current and accessible, while a dedicated support contact is available for additional assistance