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How did you decide to be a founder?)", "answer": "Meesho – short for Meri Shop (My Shop) – was founded by Vidit Aatery and Sanjeev Barnwal in 2015. Vidit and Sanjeev were wing mates at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi hostel, with their rooms located diagonally opposite each other. Upon completion of their engineering, Vidit worked with Indian consumer goods major ITC for a couple of years, followed by a year-long stint at ad-tech startup InMobi. Sanjeev joined Sony in Japan, contributing to the camera technology for DSLRs and mobiles. **\\**\\The duo got back in touch in May 2015 and decided to start up. For them, two things were clear.  One, it was a great time to be a tech entrepreneur in India – doing anything else would mean not living up to their potential. Two, solving a large-scale problem that affects more than 100 million people and something they can relate to. \\\\Soon, Vidit and Sanjeev realized that most small businesses in India were still offline. They only sold within their communities and localities, which limited their earning potential. \\\\On the consumer side, traditional e-commerce companies focused on the metros and relatively affluent consumers, leaving smaller cities and those with lower incomes out of the internet commerce revolution. Vidit and Sanjeev wanted to take the benefits of e-commerce to this cohort of consumers, democratizing internet commerce for everyone. \\\\To that end, Vidit and Sanjeev gauged the immense potential of social networks as a sales channel early on. They created a platform that enabled millions of people, including homemakers, to become entrepreneurs and resell products in their network via WhatsAp. Meesho pioneered social commerce in India and it now has \\~16 million entrepreneurs on the platform, of which over 10 million are women. \\\\What started as an idea to digitize India’s unorganized retail is now a $4.9B e-commerce company, a single thriving ecosystem of sellers, entrepreneurs and consumers. Meesho’s evolution from pure play social commerce to e-commerce is a testament to how the company is transforming the industry and making e-commerce accessible to the masses. With a vision to enable 100 million small businesses to succeed online, Meesho is continuously facilitating MSMEs’ transition from the offline to the online world." }, { "question": "How did you decide to apply to Y Combinator? What was your experience applying, going through the batch, and fundraising at demo day?", "answer": "Put simply, Vidit and Sanjeev decided to apply to Y Combinator because they were fans of Paul Graham's iconic essays 🙂They were hungry to learn how to start up from great mentors and other entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley – the global hub of tech innovations and startups. Y Combinator’s application process made Vidit and Sanjeev think hard about what they were building, what unique insight they had that no one else did, etc. Some of these fundamental questions helped refine their thinking a great deal. While going through the batch, they learned a lot about growth and user behavior from other startups. At the same time, Y Combinator partners connected them to other entrepreneurs like Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear, who shared valuable advice with Vidit and Sanjeev on how to get insights from users to build products." }, { "question": "How have you kept in touch with the YC community and continued to use YC resources & programs since the batch ended?", "answer": "The Y Combinator community is very active, both in India as well as globally. Vidit and Sanjeev are now close friends with some of the other Y Combinator founders. They often brainstorm together on the challenges they are working on, always learning something new in the process. " }, { "question": "What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?", "answer": "When Sanjeev and Vidit got together in July 2015, they were looking at building a hyperlocal platform for fashion. During the early days, the founders did everything from taking shop inventories to cataloging them on the app to making the deliveries themselves – listening intently to feedback from users and suppliers all this while. A couple of iterations later, Meesho became a social commerce platform where resellers used WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram to become a bridge between suppliers and consumers. Millions of resellers, most of them women, were able to supplement their household income by starting virtual stores on social channels without any investment and selling to their community. In the process, they achieved financial independence – besides a sense of accomplishment and identity. While Meesho pioneered the concept of social commerce in India, e-commerce adoption tailwinds from COVID-19 saw many consumers become more comfortable with directly shopping online. This was a huge opportunity for Meesho to tap and the company has been operating a marketplace connecting sellers and consumers (in addition to WhatsApp-led reselling) for over 1.5 years now. Direct sales on the platform now account for 80% of Meesho’s business. **Funding:** In July 2016, Meesho was selected by Y Combinator for a three-month summer program. In October 2017, the company raised $3.1 million in a [Series A round](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_A_round) from investors led by Elevation Capital (formerly SAIF Partners), following it up with a Series B round of $11.5 million in June 2018. Five months later, Meesho closed its Series C round of $50 million at a valuation of $200-250 million. Soon, Meta (formerly Facebook) came aboard as an investor in August 2019 and the company raised 125 million, becoming India’s first startup to be backed by the social network. In April 2021, Meesho turned a [unicor](https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/meesho-raises-300-million-led-by-softbank-enters-unicorn-club-6729831.html)n with SoftBank leading a $300 million funding round that valued the company at $2.1 billion. Later in the year, Meesho raised [$570 million](https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/meesho-raises-570-million-from-fidelity-b-capital-others-at-4-9-billion-valuation-7524951.html) in its Series F round, doubling its valuation to $4.9 billion. The company has so far raised $1.06 billion from marquee investors including Prosus Ventures, Elevation Capital, Sequoia Capital, Good Capital and Symphony International. **Growth and scale:** 2021 and 2022 were breakout years for Meesho with the business growing exponentially and witnessing strong momentum on several fronts. Meesho became the world’s most downloaded e-commerce app globally in October 2021, as per [data.ai](http://data.ai). It repeated the feat in the first half of 2022, logging record downloads, according to Apptopia. During the calendar year 2022, the Meesho app recorded the highest Monthly Active Users worldwide, as per [data.ai](http://data.ai). In 2022, the company saw 910 million orders, with nearly 80% of them coming from small towns,  showcasing how the company’s value proposition of affordability continues to be a significant differentiator. Affordable, relatable merchandise mirroring local markets has helped Meesho make inroads into homes of first-time internet users across the country. The company’s 85 million+ active product listings and strong value prop of everyday low prices has resulted in 140 million annual transacting users. On the seller side, the company’s relentless focus on digitizing small businesses is bearing fruit. Driven by industry-first initiatives such as zero commission and by ensuring there’s no private label play or tiering of sellers, Meesho’s supplier base has grown to over 825,000. Three in five of them are new-to-e-commerce and selling on Meesho for the first time. One of the reasons Meesho is able to deliver on its promise of everyday low prices is because of its asset-light structure, wherein it works with third-party logistics players for order fulfillment. Meesho is the single-largest contributor to India’s fast-growing third-party logistics industry, accounting for \\~35% of all shipments delivered by national players. **Inflection points:** The landmark entry of telecom operator Reliance Jio revolutionized India’s internet landscape. The availability of fast data, almost free of cost, catalyzed internet penetration, taking it to the deepest and remotest corners of the country. As other telecom companies followed suit, almost all of India became the Target Addressable Market in one fell swoop – opening the doors of opportunity for e-commerce companies. Additionally, the Covid-19 pandemic paved the way for a huge transformation in India’s retail landscape. Widespread adoption of e-commerce by millions of consumers across the country marked a record shift from offline to online. At the same time, millions of sellers discovered the potential of e-commerce platforms and embarked on their online journey." }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "Meesho — India’s only true online marketplace — is altering the status quo with an asset-light business model to make e-commerce inclusive and accessible for the next billion users in India.Over the last 15 years, e-commerce in India evolved with a focus on convenience-seeking customers in metros and Tier 1 cities with enough purchasing power. Much less attention was paid to residents of smaller towns and those from lower income groups with different needs around selection and affordability. Meesho is constantly working towards enabling access for this cohort of customers, reimagining the internet commerce journey for them. Over the last seven years, the company has built a simple and easy-to-use e-commerce platform that’s helped millions of new-to-ecommerce users come online. The company currently has close to \\~140 million annual transacting customers. Additionally, Meesho’s vision is to enable the smallest of sellers in India to digitize their business and reap the benefits of online commerce: a much bigger market, higher incomes, a digital footprint, et al. Driven by this vision, Meesho has routinely identified and solved the challenges that potentially deter sellers from embracing e-commerce. The company launched disruptive, industry-first initiatives like zero seller commission that leave more money in the hands of suppliers and allow them to expand their business. As India’s only true e-commerce marketplace, Meesho does not differentiate between sellers on the basis of tiers, nor does it have private labels or an inventory-led play. Meesho was built on the core principle of democratization of internet commerce for the smallest of sellers across the country." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? 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This problem is being currently tackled with countless spreadsheets or legacy systems, no longer fit for purpose.\n\n**Solution**\n\nOur platform allows business users to make **optimal decisions, easily and quickly**. Autone acts as an intelligence layer on top of the company’s existing infrastructure, turning data into decisions at lightning speed.\n\n**Why we’ve built Autone?**\n\nAfter successfully growing McQueen's business, we kept getting requests from old colleagues to help them, at the new companies they have joined, solve the same problems. 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We ran into several pain points trying to run our car wash with existing solutions, so we built our own.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/chirag-singh-toor-94713aa7", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a898bb3afef30388c77c6dee1a936a84199bb4ac.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69970, "title": "🚘💦FlexWash - An operating system for car washes", "tagline": "We make all the software car washes need to manage operations and revenue.", "body": "Hi, we’re [Chirag](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/165993) and [Karan](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/968288), founders of [Flex Wash](https://www.flexwashtech.com/), based in Temecula CA. We have decades of software development experience and ran a car wash ourselves.\n\n**Flex Wash is an operating system for the car wash industry. We help owners manage their operations and grow their revenue.**\n\nCar washing is an industry no one ever thinks about, especially software companies. But they should! This is a $15B industry that is rapidly evolving with publicly traded companies and franchises entering the space for the first time in history.\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nCar washes have complex technology needs beyond just normal retail\n\n* 🚗 License plate recognition and tracking\n* 💰 Monthly subscription management\n* 🧑 Customer retargeting\n* ⚙️ Complex maintenance for equipment that costs up to $1M\n\nCurrent solutions in this space are\n\n* 💲 Costly, charge big upfront fees for custom hardware (up to $100K)\n* 📟 Out of date, require ancient versions of Windows on-premise servers\n* 🩼 Inflexible, software is sold in static licenses rather than as a service\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nWe offer car wash operators a system that is:\n\n* 😺 Affordable, just a monthly SaaS fee\n* 📱 Compatible with generic hardware (< $700)\n* ☁️ Runs in the cloud, operators can focus on car washing, not servers\n* 💰 Modern, we use vehicle wash history to funnel customers to high-margin subscriptions\n\n### We know this because we ran a car wash ourselves. We faced these issues first hand and that is why we got together to build FlexWash. Our solution not only saves operators money but helps them better manage operations and boost revenue.\n\n\\\n**The Ask**\n\n* **Own a car wash? … We’d love to give you a demo**\n* **Don’t own a car wash? … Refer anyone in your network, especially your favorite car wash, please.**\n* **Car wash enthusiast? … We’d love to chat.**\n\nReach us at [karan@flexwashtech.com](mailto:karan@flexwashtech.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICY-flexwash-an-operating-system-for-car-washes", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2023-03-06T18:25:19.584Z" } ] }, { "id": 27894, "name": "Booth AI", "slug": "booth-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4b3a15112db36cea4190b3079ddeba5278c19f7f.png", "website": "https://booth.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Booth AI enables companies to supercharge their creative output with a generative-AI powered image production platform. 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Please describe your product and what it does or will do.\n", "answer": "Booth AI is a B2B SaaS company that offers virtual photoshoot as a service (VPAAS) to e-commerce brands who sell physical goods. Submit basic photos of your product (CPG, apparel, etc), and receive hundreds of high-quality images of it. No more boring white-background photo studios images. 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Check out our [demo video](https://framerusercontent.com/assets/OuoBfiorNSCbVJarMwG4I1GATaU.mp4), where we go from prompt to Gen AI application in minutes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81851&key=user_uploads/96513/1f931ce6-71d9-410b-901d-1ab36b6255e7)\n\nWhether you need an internal tool for categorizing customer inquiries, need to do fuzzy PDF analysis at scale, or want to automate and schedule a Custom GPT - [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) has you covered.\n\nChoose from our library of 165 different nodes that can be connected in infinite ways. You can build it yourself with our no-code interface or use our AI Auto-Build feature to go from prompt to application in a single shot! We auto-create a dynamic interface UI so you can share your creation as a single-page app with a link.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81851&key=user_uploads/96513/bada6f09-f346-43ea-8d32-a0d0412a791c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81851&key=user_uploads/96513/dd5bfa1a-8677-4c8a-88a3-a89630336d6b)\n\n**✋ Our asks**\n\nIf you're looking to build an AI internal tool or simplify your AI experimentation process - reach out, give [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) a try, and book a demo with us. We’re loading up all new accounts this week with 500 free credits. If you know a founder or operator who would benefit from [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai), please contact us at [founders@booth.ai](mailto:founders@booth.ai).\n\nThanks!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LIB-booth-ai-build-no-code-gen-ai-apps", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2024-07-01T17:51:21.810Z" }, { "id": 69552, "title": "Booth.ai - Easy product photography with Generative AI", "tagline": "Create unique, engaging product images - all without a photographer", "body": "**Hi YC 👋**\n\nHigh quality product photography is a must for E-Commerce stores, but it gets costly fast - with an average of $300/SKU for new photography. That’s why [Ian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianabaldwin/) and [I](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-locascio/) started [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) to make quality product photography scalable and accessible to sellers of all sizes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69552&key=user_uploads/96513/be88ecd8-fcd0-4309-a67d-519c46eced99)\n\n### **🔥 TL;DR**\n\n[Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) is your personal product photographer, powered by Generative AI. Just describe your photoshoot in text, and we’ll place your product naturally in the generated scene.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69552&key=user_uploads/96513/e48ceaf4-8262-4c1f-a250-8853b7f9ef1c)\n\n### **🧠 How does it work?**\n\n[Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) makes incredible Gen AI technology accessible and easy to use. Customers connect their Shopify stores to auto-import all of their products. Then they describe, in text, how they want their product to appear. [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) handles the rest by generating a scene around the product and producing a 4k image. We even support bulk image generation for stores with thousands of SKUs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69552&key=user_uploads/96513/2edcd9c9-723f-4ce4-8dc5-95cd38973df6)\n\n### **🛍️ Who is** [**Booth.ai**](http://Booth.ai) **for?**\n\nOur ideal customer profile is an e-commerce business that sells a physical product, and currently spends > $10k yearly on visual imagery. This includes e-commerce aggregators, independent stores on Shopify, WooCommerce, Magenta, FBA, and larger brands with SKU counts that eclipse their photography budgets.\n\n### [✋](https://emojipedia.org/raised-hand/) **Our asks**\n\n1. If you run an E-Commerce business - reach out, give us a try, and book a demo [here](https://share.hsforms.com/1dSi0_0YSTLC4ic4tpeY42Ae1qx8?__hstc=121515287.d8ace17c3feac80f7acec81ca9243dd8.1673563844280.1676356189520.1676398984590.70&__hssc=121515287.1.1676398984590&__hsfp=1945899485)! Use our YC-network discount code YC30 for 30% off our plans.\n2. If you know a founder/operator in this space who would be interested in using Booth AI, please connect us to them - [founders@booth.ai](mailto:founders@booth.ai)\n\n### ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I5o-booth-ai-easy-product-photography-with-generative-ai", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2023-02-22T17:49:37.585Z" } ] }, { "id": 28045, "name": "Peeba", "slug": "peeba", "former_names": [ "Kingmaker Limited" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1201a58c5de47a287ab4ea6a262a2598a1e6f3af.png", "website": "http://peeba.com/", "all_locations": "Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia", "long_description": "Peeba is a one-stop B2B wholesale marketplace that is changing the way retailers across Asia purchase inventory. We’ve streamlined the buying process, making it easier than ever for independent retailers to buy top-selling products from unique brands for their stores.", "one_liner": "Risk-free wholesale for retailers across Southeast Asia", "team_size": 30, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1674343263, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Marketplace", "B2B", "Retail" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "Indonesia", "Southeast Asia", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/peeba", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/peeba.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "Jakarta", "country": "ID", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/peeba", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Peeba_official", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/Peeba", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1201a58c5de47a287ab4ea6a262a2598a1e6f3af.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1119720, "full_name": "Jacky Lai", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder and CEO @ Peeba - Before Peeba, I have ran two companies including an e-commerce business where I led the team to grow to over $40mn USD in annual sales. I graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. ", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackylaihk", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/45aef4fd9efa9db471f019d5d1dd0fc5fa318fe7.jpg" }, { "user_id": 745223, "full_name": "Kevin Cho", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO @ Medifly.ai. 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", "body": "**tl;dr:** Peeba is a B2B wholesale marketplace that simplifies the buying process for retailers in Asia, connecting them with over 2,500 brands from around the world at the best prices, with free returns and 60 days payment terms.\n\n👋 Hello everyone! We are Kevin and Jacky, founders of [Peeba](https://www.peeba.com/).\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Z8jALKdiHQaXA8YwXCDv9tYOySii1nPFLOWqAkbsav0X8egaQ3d0veCkDIZeYFsl5pvm3G7dUBT1QaQvL6XTOIX29d0_zlx60rkmtdoygpWQrs41aV1vONYLLRjx1yjecZoGL1qyhA5ANhCvG6e0Eac)\n\n**Problems:**\n\nDespite the growth in e-commerce over the last decade, the B2B wholesale industry in Asia that supports and connects retailers with brands languishes in the pre-digital era and lags behind in technology adoption - over 80% of wholesale transactions in Asia are still brokered over phone and physical meetings with sales representatives. Retailers face difficulty discovering relevant new products, it is risky to take on new products and very cumbersome to manage multiple brand/supplier relationships. The same applies for brands - going to trade-shows to entice buyers is expensive and inefficient. This problem is amplified in Asia where people are spread out across different countries, with different languages, different payment methods, different logistics infrastructure and non-transparent pricing creates many layers of challenges for retailers and brands to build relationships. \n\n**Solution:**\n\nPeeba addresses these pain points by providing a one-stop B2B wholesale marketplace that offers retailers in Asia access to thousands of best selling products with flexible buy-now-pay-later options and free returns. Our platform uses machine learning to enable discovery, allowing retailers to streamline their procurement process, automating many of the tedious tasks associated with buying inventory and simplifying cross-border logistics, making it easy for retailers to discover new brands and manage inventory. With our free return policy, retailers can reduce inventory risk and purchase with confidence, helping them to buy inventory that their customers will love. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69864&key=user_uploads/1119720/a04b3631-f594-4707-974c-4e2b9a0f72be)\n\n**A bit more about us:**\n\nWe kicked off our journey in mid-2020 and since then, we've been on a mission to make B2B trade simpler, connecting retailers across 13 markets in Asia with over 2,500 brands and growing! The more we dive into the complexities of the industry, the more driven we become to simplify wholesale for everyone involved. Our goal is to empower retailers across Asia to achieve more by revolutionizing the way B2B wholesale trade is done, bringing efficiency and simplicity to the forefront of the industry.\n\n**Ask:**\n\nIf you are a brand looking to expand your wholesale business in Asia, please reach out to us [here](https://peeba.com/brands).\n\nIf you are an investor looking to join our mission, please reach out to us here: [founders@peeba.com](mailto:founders@peeba.com). ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAq-peeba-faire-for-asia", "votes": 167, "created_at": "2023-03-02T05:47:09.677Z" } ] }, { "id": 28129, "name": "Luca", "slug": "luca", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c1a38009f747692e81bd13516e12a87a399aead1.png", "website": "https://www.askluca.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Pricing Strategy is one of the most powerful levers that retailers have at their disposal to create growth, yet it is underleveraged. Most retail pricing teams settle for making decisions in spreadsheets, shooting in the dark, and working backward from a cost-plus margin target, leaving a LOT of money on the table.\r\n\r\nOur founders experienced these problems at scale when they built pricing tech at Uber that made Uber a billion dollars in profit a year. They realized that retail was lacking the same quality and sophistication of price tooling. So, they built Luca.\r\n\r\nLuca is an AI-powered co-pilot for retail operators, which constantly identifies revenue and profit headroom, makes recommendations for price adjustments and saves countless work hours along the way. \r\n\r\nLuca is backed by Y Combinator, Menlo Ventures, and others.", "one_liner": "The Modern Pricing Engine for Retail", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1670277293, "tags": [ "Machine Learning", "SaaS", "Retail" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Retail" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/luca", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/luca.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/lucasoftware/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/LucaPricingHq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/luca-d9f8", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c1a38009f747692e81bd13516e12a87a399aead1.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/6ea43cf216352c2915d1c75e8bec867f98a5fec1.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 814509, "full_name": "Tanvi Surti", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO and Co-Founder at Luca. 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Previously led pricing teams at Uber Eats.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/yonah-mann/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d30f3e0b8db5035b419486244415d420df81ee14.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Y Combinator-backed Luca aims to optimize retail prices at enterprise scale | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/27/luca-raises-cash-for-pricing-optimization/", "date": "Apr 27, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69842, "title": "Luca - Meet the pricing co-pilot for e-commerce businesses.", "tagline": "We help retailers set prices and discounts that create 10% more profits and revenue, with 10% of the effort.", "body": "**tl;dr**\n\nLuca is a machine learning-powered co-pilot for retail, which constantly identifies headroom in your store, makes recommendations for price adjustments, and helps you manage decisions across all sales channels. \n\nWe are an ex-Uber Pricing team that is already helping retailers manage prices for over $50mill of revenue. [Get in touch](https://forms.reform.app/pqNBb1/early-access-1/kZx3w2) with us!\n\n**Our Story**\n\nWe are Yonah Mann and Tanvi Surti. We met while working at Uber, where we both worked on pricing technology. Our work cumulatively created over $1 billion in margin gains for Uber – and this experience made us realize that configurable revenue tools in the hands of operators could be incredibly powerful!\n\nSo, we are now on a mission to bring revenue optimization tools to retail, and build a fun company as we go along!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69842&key=user_uploads/814509/5422d569-a5ce-4f8a-bbc2-1cf3c2a98268)\n\n**The Problem**\n\nE-commerce teams have to react to large swathes of data from multiple channels to build a pricing and discount strategy, such as  –\n\n1. ⛅ Seasonal and Market trends, with changing customer price elasticities\n2. 👯 Competitor price changes or promotional campaigns\n3. 🚛 Inventory availability \n4. 🚢 Changing manufacturing and shipping costs\n\n_And_, they have to do this across 1000s of SKUs and across multiple stakeholder teams such as Merchandising, Marketing, Revenue, and Inventory. This level of complexity makes changing prices time-consuming and inefficient, while still leaving money on the table.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69842&key=user_uploads/814509/004e0bac-15fd-49c9-a3af-d7d20e6bc40d)\n\nWe replace fragmented decision making in e-commerce teams with our pricing system that organizes, recommends and measures outcomes, ensuring that every product is priced in a way that optimizes revenue and profits. Here’s how –\n\n1. **👀 Observe:** We connect with the customer’s sales and inventory data sources (Amazon and Shopify to start, more to come soon), and create a real-time view of customer elasticities and conversion rates. \n2. **👉 Recommend**: We feed historical sales, competitor and market data into our machine learning model, combine it with inventory availability and make recommendations for price and discount adjustments.\n3. **🖐 Act:** We bubble up the recommendations over email and Slack, allowing the business to quickly act upon the data and push the changes to production across all their channels.\n4. **⚙ Configure**: Lastly, we allow the business to configure custom rules, such as competitor-based pricing guardrails or wholesale-price-based constraints.\n\n**Asks**\n\n* If you work in retail and would like to try our product, please sign up [here](https://forms.reform.app/pqNBb1/early-access-1/kZx3w2) and we will get in touch with you.\n* If you know someone in your network who would be interested in this, please drop us a note at [founders@askluca.com](mailto:founders@askluca.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAU-luca-meet-the-pricing-co-pilot-for-e-commerce-businesses", "votes": 52, "created_at": "2023-03-01T20:37:56.184Z" } ] }, { "id": 28366, "name": "Vendora", "slug": "vendora", "former_names": [ "Jaldi" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c7be06dcb8a54a9986497faea1a7a0198198f052.png", "website": "https://www.vendora.io/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Vendora is building a generational company in one of the largest industries out there - grocery. We build software to serve the $1 trillion dollar (over 3% of US GDP) grocery industry. This ranges from point of sale, payments, e-commerce, inventory management, loyalty, and advanced analytics with more on the horizon. \r\n\r\nWe’re taking bleeding edge technology and an AI-focused approach to modernizing an industry stuck in legacy software and practices. 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I’m Sunny, the founder of [Vendora](https://www.vendora.io/).\n\n**tl;dr** At Vendora, we build vertical saas for the grocery industry - today we focus on e-commerce enablement, helping grocers make the most of their digital channels. Think of us as Shopify Meets Toast for supermarkets.  \n\n### Problem\n\nA monumental $800B grocery industry runs on outdated systems and manual processes. In an age where 12% of grocery sales have gone online, many grocers are getting left behind, lacking the tools to adapt and make the most of this emerging channel. Grocers need to adapt to compete with the Amazon and Walmarts of the world.\n\n### Solution\n\nVendora is solving this problem by being the one platform grocers need to engage with customers digitally. We make it easy for them to succeed online. \n\nBy connecting with their existing stack, we ingest their data, augment it through our AI powered workflows, and set up accurate, enhanced data feeds to their third parties. We also give them their own storefront (website and app) so they can own more of the customer relationship. Along with all this, we give them the tools to easily manage these channels, optimize their performance, and engage with their customers.  \n\n### Who am I?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74433&key=user_uploads/1224770/f850f527-6a20-494e-be39-33fa37d566cb)\n\nI’ve quite literally have been in the grocery space for my entire life. \n\nI grew up in grocery stores, working in my family’s supermarkets, seeing it go from a single 500 sq ft family store in Queens, NY to a chain of stores. I’ve seen it all first hand (stocking, the register, backoffice, you name it). \n\nProfessionally, I was the Head of US Strategy at Uber Grocery coming in through Uber’s acquisition of Cornershop, where I earned my startup stripes. I began my career at Amazon's US Grocery team, worked on ops for Amazon Fresh, and then the Search Science and AI team. I’ve seen how some of the best companies on the planet run things and I’m channeling that expertise into Vendora. \n\n### Ask\n\nKnow any grocers that want to start selling online or earn even more on existing channels? Send them our way. [founders@vendora.io](mailto:founders@vendora.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JMX-vendora-ecommerce-enablement-for-grocery", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2023-08-28T14:59:06.995Z" }, { "id": 69777, "title": "🛒🥭 Jaldi – South Asian Groceries Delivered!", "tagline": "Jaldi is the online supermarket for South Asians living in the US", "body": "Hey everyone!  Sunny here from [Jaldi](https://getjaldi.com/). \n\nTL;DR: **Jaldi delivers your favorite South Asian groceries, household items, and beauty products right to your door**. Give us a try (use discount code LaunchYC at checkout or [click here to have it autoapply](https://getjaldi.com/discount/LaunchYC)) and share with your friends (). \n\n### 🛒 **What is Jaldi?**\n\nJaldi is the online supermarket for South Asians living in the US. We deliver thousands of South Asian grocery, beauty, and household products right to customers’ doors through nationwide and same-day local delivery. Available at [getjaldi.com](http://getjaldi.com) and on [our mobile apps](https://getjaldi.onelink.me/0mSJ/j3y5iudn), we offer the most seamless shopping experience for anyone looking to explore the rich cultural diversity of South Asia or simply get a taste of home. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69777&key=user_uploads/1224770/0bf887ba-cb0f-499b-a287-d9447dfe5536)\n\nCurrently we offer nationwide shipping of non-perishable items (get your [Kurkure](https://getjaldi.com/products/kurkure-masala-munch-82g/?variant=%2044438553690429), [Thums Up](https://getjaldi.com/products/thumps-up-300-ml/?variant=%2044141331218749), [Dals](https://getjaldi.com/pages/dal-beans?filter.p.tag=Nationwide), etc.) and local same-day delivery of a full selection of South Asian groceries ([dahi](https://getjaldi.com/products/0rganic-whole-milk-dahi-2-l?variant=44141385253181), fruits & vegetables, frozen meals, etc.) in New Jersey. \n\n### 🤔 **Why does Jaldi exist?**\n\nWhile the last five years saw a fivefold increase in US online grocery penetration, little has changed for South Asians living in the US. Few South Asian supermarkets offer delivery and often struggle on inventory and quality when they do. Selection online can often be expensive, elusive, and leave the customer wanting for more. \n\n**The South Asian consumer deserves better. That’s why I started Jaldi.** \n\nSouth Asians in the US are the highest earning and fastest growing ethnic demographic - yet there are few shopping experiences that cater specifically to them. Jaldi is building the first-class e-commerce experience for the South Asian diaspora. The next wave in retail will be cultural commerce, how communities shop and interact with what they buy. Jaldi is leading the way in this emerging space. \n\n### 🧔🏻‍♂️ **Why am I the one building this?**\n\nI’ve spent my life in this space. I grew up in South Asian supermarkets - my family runs a large chain in the US. My first job out of college was working on Amazon’s grocery business, wearing many hats over the few years I spent there. Most recently, I was the Head of US Strategy & Expansion for Uber’s Grocery business. I’ve seen the grocery industry (and specifically the South Asian consumables space) from multiple angles and see the opportunity to build an amazing customer experience here. \n\n### 💥 **The Deal**\n\nOrder! Browse the site ([check out our Popular Picks](https://getjaldi.com/pages/popular-picks) if you can’t make up your mind).You can use the discount code LaunchYC at checkout for 10% off and free shipping on your first $50 order. \n\n* [Download the app](https://getjaldi.onelink.me/0mSJ/j3y5iudn)\n* [Go straight to](https://getjaldi.com/) [getjaldi.com](http://getjaldi.com)\n\n### 🙏🏽 **Our Ask**\n\nFollow us and share! We’ll be highlighting some of our favorite products and special deals on our socials, help us spread the word!\n\n* [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/getjaldiofficial)\n* [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/getjaldi/)\n* [Twitter](https://twitter.com/getjaldi)\n* [Pinterest](https://www.pinterest.com/getJaldi/)\n* [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getjaldi)\n\n### 🗣️ **What are customers are saying?**\n\n_I love your service. Please accept few more orders in future._ \\[He bought all of our inventory on a product\\]_. Great work! Thank you for your business_ \n\n_Sunny!!! I got the groceries. Seamless process, actually so smooth._\n\n_Honestly, I had never stepped foot into a South Asian supermarket and didn't know what to expect. Ordered some of the recommended products, now I can't get enough of Thums Up and Kurkure!_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69777&key=user_uploads/1224770/6576e5fd-0ca9-4e38-93d8-1ad4934e03ac)\n\n_Screenshot shared by an enthusiastic batchmate and Jaldi fan!_", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I9R-jaldi-south-asian-groceries-delivered", "votes": 159, "created_at": "2023-02-28T20:07:14.007Z" } ] }, { "id": 28759, "name": "Branch AI", "slug": "branch-ai", "former_names": [ "Branch AI", "Apiflow" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a6abe17a364c1113dea922a968293da0024ff5af.png", "website": "https://www.branch-ai.com", "all_locations": "Singapore, Singapore", "long_description": "Boost conversions & organic SEO traffic by adding AI to your search box, unlocking personalized answers, suggestions, comparisons & more\r\n\r\nSolutions\r\n- Add AI Overviews to Search (Boost Conversions) \r\n- Save Answers as Landing Pages (Boost Organic SEO)", "one_liner": "AI Overview Search, as a Service", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1708944337, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Retail", "Search", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Retail" ], "regions": [ "Singapore", "Southeast Asia" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/branch-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/branch-ai.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Singapore", "country": "SG", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/govindchandrasekhar/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a6abe17a364c1113dea922a968293da0024ff5af.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 31801, "full_name": "Govind Chandrasekhar", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder @ Branch AI (YC S23) | Previously co-founder @ Semantics3 (YC W13, acquired by Hearst Magazines) | ex Machine Learning lead @ Twitter (recommendations)", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/govindchandrasekhar", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/govind201", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/bb54033e2d29b77652f6c478eedc476808bf1918.jpg" }, { "user_id": 3501, "full_name": "Ishan Agrawal", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder @ Branch AI (YC S23). \nPreviously Group CTO @ Funding Societies (350M raised, scaled the company from Seed to Series D)", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/ishanagrawal", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ishanagr", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c2b27b14924455009bb079d1a560d26ce1a81ac5.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Former Funding Societies CTO Ishan Agrawal Launches YC-Backed Branch AI - Fintech Singapore", "url": "https://fintechnews.sg/89305/ai/former-funding-societies-cto-ishan-agrawal-launches-yc-backed-branch-ai/", "date": "Feb 26, 2024" }, { "title": "Ex-Funding Societies CTO launches YC-backed ecommerce AI startup", "url": "https://www.techinasia.com/exfunding-societies-cto-launches-ycbacked-ecommerce-ai-startup", "date": "Feb 26, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 78740, "title": "Branch AI - State-of-the-art Ecommerce search, instantly", "tagline": "Powered by AI that learns your catalog and tunes itself to drive conversions", "body": "### **The Problem**\n\n* [**Search queries are becoming more conversational**](https://blog.branch-ai.com/second-order-effects-of-ai-search-from-keywords-to-intent-63b3b9fa20e8) (ChatGPT effect). However, most Ecommerce retailers & brands still use keyword search tools resulting in lost revenue for tail queries.\n* Search providers give you tools to build search engines, **but leave relevance engineering up to you** (i.e. tuning of the search).\n* Tuning search to maximize conversions is [**complicated & expensive**](https://blog.branch-ai.com/what-it-takes-to-build-effective-search-8a2901a9a943) (involves stitching together embeddings, rankers, NLP models, heuristics & annotated feedback).\n* DIY embeddings and models are easy to experiment with. But building **production-grade deployments requires catalog-specific tuning**, which can unlock 20-30% better accuracy & conversions.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78740&key=user_uploads/31801/a4c105e8-a6a6-41f0-977c-e09de9b09233)\n\n**Step 1 - Upload/Connect Catalog:** Upload a list of products or connect to an existing search database or platform (e.g. Elastic or Shopify).\n\n**Step 2 - LLM-powered Tuning**: This happens under the hood automatically. We use LLMs to train catalog-specific embeddings, rankers & query rewriters, bootstrapped from our proprietary Ecommerce-specific models.\n\n**Step 3 - AI APIs**: With zero effort, businesses get:\n\n1. _Search API_: Query → Ranked Products (for end-to-end query rewriting, hybrid retrieval & reranking)\n2. _Query Understanding API_: User Query → Catalog-Aware Query (for DIY query expansion/relaxation)\n3. _Embeddings API_: Query or Product → Catalog-specific Embedding (for DIY retrieval)\n4. _Reranking API_: Candidate Products → Re-ordered Products (for DIY precision improvements)\n\n**Step 4 - Preferences**: Users can control search behavior using:\n\n* _Merchandising Strategies:_ Execute smart strategies using simple instruction templates (e.g. “boost Apple Vision Pros to visitors looking for gifts”)\n* _Feedback:_ Demonstrate examples of preferred search results (models learn from these “few-shot”)\n* _Maintenance Jobs:_ LLMs periodically evaluate search results (e.g. for queries with zero results) and produce training data to fix gaps\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n* If you want a better search with lower effort for your Ecommerce store, contact us via [email](mailto:govind@branch-ai.com) or [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/govindchandrasekhar/).\n* If you’d like a free evaluation of your site search, submit a request [on our website](https://www.branch-ai.com).\n\n### **About Us**\n\n* [Govind](https://www.linkedin.com/in/govindchandrasekhar/) was previously co-founder of [Semantics3](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/semantics3) (YC W13), an Ecommerce catalog AI company, from 2011 to 2020.\n* Govind & [Praveen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveens07/) (founding engineer) built embeddings, rankers, and transformer-based sequence models at Twitter that directly drove 1MM+ DAUs.\n* [Ishan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishanagrawal/) was CTO at Funding Societies, the largest digital financing Fintech in Southeast Asia, where he built and scaled the technology and business from Seed to Series D.\n\n### **Our Vision**\n\nTo serve as an Ecommerce AI platform for brands and retailers. 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We - [Wael](https://www.linkedin.com/in/walsallami/) and [Kenan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenan-kaymakcan/) - are building a platform for retailers to match their invoices with their purchasing orders.\n\n**The Problem: Retailers are overpaying their vendors**\n\nRetailers are juggling a lot of internal and market pressures­–inflation, low margins, high turnover, etc. They don’t have the time and resources to stay on top of their entire operations. As a result, we discovered that they can’t keep track of the discrepancies between purchase orders and vendor payments, leading them to routinely overpay their vendors.\n\n**Solution: Martola, automatic matching between your invoices and purchase orders**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73245&key=user_uploads/417236/af5a9cbe-91a6-4c5c-ade3-5e3d8861bf47)\n\nMartola requires minimal intervention on the retailer’s side, matching the necessary lines on their purchase orders to their invoices and alerting them to discrepancies such as price and quantity mismatch.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73245&key=user_uploads/417236/7ac16502-3481-446b-a1fd-234b738acc5f)\n\nRetailers can follow up with the vendor or update the purchase order on their end.\n\nWe decided to focus on solving this critical pain point as our initial scope. Our long-term vision is to capture retailers by solving for this problem with a clear business case and expand our product suite to address retailers’ other challenges.\n\n**Our ask**\n\n* If you are a retailer and interested in our solution or know any retailer that can be interested, please reach out to us at [founders@martola.com](mailto:founders@martola.com)\n* Investors, please reach out to [founders@martola.com](mailto:founders@martola.com)\n\nThank you from Wael and Kenan\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73245&key=user_uploads/417236/8c35052c-c3bd-4a80-8683-a52f0af12752)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J3N-martola-save-time-and-money-on-procurement", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2023-07-20T02:29:46.577Z" } ] }, { "id": 29042, "name": "Santé", "slug": "sante", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d10be62025bd08a71a16a6b40cd46744ed418b47.png", "website": "https://santehq.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "All-in-one POS for liquor stores", "team_size": 20, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1684850998, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "B2B", "Retail" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Retail" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sante", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/sante.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d10be62025bd08a71a16a6b40cd46744ed418b47.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 944994, "full_name": "Darren Fike", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "10 years of Sales and Marketing experience at startups like Fast and Bond. \n\nCurrently: Co-Founder / CEO of Santé; Toast for liquor stores. 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Our mission at Santé is to empower tens of thousands of liquor store owners to run their businesses more efficiently using modern software.\n\n# Problem\n\n91% of liquor stores are independently owned and operated. Stores are often understaffed and rely on antiquated systems to manage day-to-day operations. A few examples of common problems for liquor stores:\n\n* Spending hours per week on manual data entry for inventory receiving and creating purchase orders.\n* Dealing with complex interstate regulations to sell liquor online (a growing trend).\n* Working with poor integrations for local delivery (Drizly, DoorDash, Instacart, etc).\n* Mishandling products at checkout because many beers/wines do not have barcodes.\n* Losing sales due to poor integration between their POS and marketing tools.\n* Losing a meaningful portion of their inventory to theft ($5B+ lost across the industry annually).\n\nIn fact, one of our early customers called this industry a “dinosaur industry” after sending us this picture:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73086&key=user_uploads/944994/e85195fe-bd46-4385-9b1f-6fc29d05eff4)\n\n# Solution\n\nWe’re helping independent liquor stores run thriving businesses with a POS built from the ground up to serve their specific needs:\n\n* **Simple Receiving:** Saving hours per week with automated inventory receiving and purchase order management\n* **Theft Monitoring:** Using RFID tags on every bottle to track when stolen bottles are leaving the store\n* **Compliance Management:** Source of truth on state-by-state shipping so that stores can open a new revenue stream and ship to all available states across the country\n* **Robust integrations:** Cutting costs by giving store owners all the tools they need to run their business with one subscription to Santé\n\n# Founders\n\n[@Darren](https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenfike/), Santé’s CEO, was the top sales rep at his last two startups, and he has a passion for wine. Last year, he realized that his favorite local liquor stores in NYC still heavily rely on pen and paper. To learn more about the problem, he spent the next four months working at Frankly Wines on nights and weekends and interviewed over a hundred liquor store owners.\n\n[@Antoine](https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinebalaresque/), Santé’s CTO, is a UC Berkeley alum and has founded multiple startups in the past in robotics, e-commerce, and SaaS. He is originally from France.\n\n# Give us a hand!\n\nHave any friends or family that work in the liquor store industry that would be interested in a casual discovery call? \n\nReach out to Darren at [darren@santehq.com](mailto:darren@santehq.com) to coordinate an intro. ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J0o-sant-the-all-in-one-pos-for-liquor-stores", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2023-07-14T18:31:57.403Z" } ] }, { "id": 29409, "name": "BetterBasket", "slug": "betterbasket", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c7b35e46eb9b08cc67eb469ae038a64122cff97e.png", "website": "http://www.betterbasket.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "BetterBasket provides grocery retailers with AI agents for pricing, competitive intelligence and promotion optimization, with the aim of helping teams boost revenue, manage margin targets and automate decisions using real-time data across operations. 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95% of American consumers are changing their grocery shopping habits because of volatile prices, and the $800bn grocery industry must adapt. [**_BetterBasket_**](http://betterbasket.ai/) provides an end-to-end solution for merchandising teams at grocery stores to help with pricing and product assortment.\n\n### **🍌 Problem**\n\nGrocers and food & beverage brands need data-driven recommendations more than ever because of…\n\n* Macro impacts from **price volatility**,\n* customer pull for **more localized selection**,\n* and **shrinking pricing zones** as local supply chains get impacted.\n\nEven for established enterprises, analyzing data across hundreds of thousands of SKUs (“apples-to-apples” comparisons), daily price movements, and multiple margin targets, while balancing sell-through, profitability, and customer satisfaction (especially at a time when many are being accused of “greedflation”) is an impossible task.\n\nCurrent solutions are to:\n\n* Make decisions **without data**,\n* Use a labor-intensive method such as **mystery shoppers,** or\n* Get by with tools that neither **raise the level of sophistication** that managers can operate at **nor saves them time.**\n\n### **🍎 Solution**\n\nBetterBasket is an end-to-end solution for merchandising, encompassing (1) competitive data, (2) visualizations, and (3) recommendations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78622&key=user_uploads/1227729/a16ebfbb-5ee5-48f3-b7e0-29b88e01d8ef)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78622&key=user_uploads/1227729/366f91f7-931d-4810-8295-5b4cfdef020d)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78622&key=user_uploads/1227729/9e0f42fe-3368-429d-bf40-afea42be9af0)\n\n### **🧺 How it Works**\n\nWe scrape websites and flyers for in-store and online pricing and product info. Our matching algorithm then uses a combination of natural language processing and computer vision methods to create a centralized product repository across merchants, geographies, and categories that describes the items and the relationships between them.\n\nThis database allows us to give customers up-to-date and accurate competitive information on the products that they and their competitors are carrying. This includes but is not limited to historical price changes, geographical pricing (zone maps), and Venn diagrams showcasing item overlap.\n\nOur pricing and assortment algorithms generate pricing recommendations (with the ability to automate pricing in online stores and physical stores that use digital price tags) as well as assortment recommendations (products to acquire or remove). Our algorithms use data from competitive intelligence, our customer’s unique strategies and targets, and external variables to achieve the optimal outcome based on current conditions.\n\n### **🍣 Why we started BetterBasket**\n\nVagelis and Leon worked together at Uber Eats, setting up the grocery delivery platform and notably launching our dark store footprint in Taiwan and Japan and scaling it to 20+ stores. As we built up a launch team with no retail DNA, we realized the need for merchandising analytics for pricing and procurement teams, especially with regards to competitive data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78622&key=user_uploads/1227729/4c26d656-2098-496f-9f75-ce9293fc8ea3)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78622&key=user_uploads/1227729/670a85af-7780-458a-9731-6dd53bbbd179)\n\n### **🍴 The Ask**\n\nIf you know of any grocery chains or food and beverage brands that need help with pricing or product assortment decision-making or are willing to talk about their most pressing issues, let us know! We’re at [**founders@betterbasket.ai**](mailto:founders@betterbasket.ai) and would love to learn more about their needs.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KS6-betterbasket-pricing-for-grocers", "votes": 49, "created_at": "2024-02-21T21:02:52.062Z" } ] }, { "id": 29834, "name": "Rastro", "slug": "rastro", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/447ef3f5bdd55f339b07fe098ff620ccfd86af36.png", "website": "https://rastro.ai", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "We help distributors and manufacturers turn catalog chaos into launch-ready products. 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We’ll help them launch their next product line in the first month, or offer a refund. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95204&key=user_uploads/1651987/f45b9b48-912f-44a4-bb47-f80019f8a058)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OlY-rastro-ai-launch-products-faster", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2025-11-05T23:15:43.974Z" }, { "id": 83240, "title": "Rastro: Your personal interior designer", "tagline": "Find beautiful objects for your home, at no extra cost.", "body": "# Should it cost you 50k to decorate your home?\n\nDecorating your home? You have 2 choices: hire an interior designer for $50k, or spend 50 hours doing it yourself. A beautiful home, time, money: pick two.\n\nRastro is your hassle-free personal shopper and interior designer:\n\n1. We craft your taste profile in a 15-minute call.\n2. We find you matching decor from 46 sources.\n3. We buy what you love, delivered to your door.\n\nAre you decorating your space? \\\n[**Book your 15-minute onboarding call here.**](https://forms.fillout.com/t/eJHrqtsGiKus)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83240&key=user_uploads/2075162/4c6ff5d7-be50-45e6-9245-51b6f184a78c)\n\n# 💡 How we got here\n\nIn our first week at YC, we built a tool to help interior designers source furniture for less. Early on, a designer told us, “Getting an $8k chair for $4k isn’t material, we do $75k jobs.” Not sure their customer would agree, but it does explain their fee.\n\nMost of us know our taste, but scrolling dozens of websites is a waste of time. Niche sourcing channels are jealously guarded by professional dealers, and the best inventory is difficult to find.\n\n# ✅ Rastro’s Solution\n\nRastro is your personal interior designer, with no up-front costs.\n\n1. In an onboarding call, we craft a taste profile for you. Show us your space and tell us what you’re looking for. 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We deliver everything you purchase to your door, leveraging retailer partnerships and referrals to ensure a same-price guarantee.\n\nLet us help you decorate your home: book your onboarding call today at [**rastro.sh**](https://rastro.sh)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83240&key=user_uploads/89898/037237d1-8a7b-4779-9d3c-2e8b27a42f9c)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lea-rastro-your-personal-interior-designer", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2024-08-20T19:29:33.359Z" } ] }, { "id": 29850, "name": "SureBright", "slug": "surebright", "former_names": [ "SureBright Technologies, Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/786573119daa04ca85d28b00e8358a03f4e0a184.png", "website": "https://surebright.com/", "all_locations": "New Delhi, DL, India", "long_description": "SureBright lets e-commerce merchants embed \"Apple Care” like product warranties into their checkout flows in less than 10 minutes. 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And it’s as easy as signing up for Facebook if you still remember that!** 😉 — [**_Talk to us._**](https://meetings.hubspot.com/manishchauhan/discussion-booking-extended-hours)\n\n_—_\\\n\\\nHello, everyone! We are Manish and Sanket (right to left), the team behind SureBright. We started our professional journey together with our first job at Samsung Research Institute 14 years ago. \\\n\\\n[**Manish**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/manishchauhan01/) **(CEO)**, a graduate of the University of Waterloo (MMath, CS) and INSEAD (MBA), has developed products for industry giants like Amazon and serves on the board of the InsurTech Association. [**Sanket**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanketmunjal/) **(CTO)** has led engineering departments at insurtechs such as Policy Bazaar, which has become a household name in India. Together, we bring 25 years of combined experience in insurtechs, startups, major tech companies, and business.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83656&key=user_uploads/456731/48122b44-2e46-4967-8d6f-81c645ca259d)\n\nWarranty and insurance distribution in e-commerce has seen minimal change, with the industry evolving slowly. At Surebright, we're on a mission to revolutionize this by leveraging the latest advancements in generative AI. Our platform enables US and Canadian merchants to seamlessly integrate Apple Care-like warranty programs for any eligible product, from ovens to bikes. We achieve this with nearly zero onboarding and operating costs, allowing merchants to offer these warranties in just minutes across any sales channel.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83656&key=user_uploads/456731/62878cfc-f33a-4731-82c6-022f2614970f)\n\n### **What is the problem? ❌**\n\nThe cost of offering product warranties is exponentially high for merchants and insurers. As it follows,\n\n1. **Resource-Intensive Integration:** Merchants must create a file transfer-based system to integrate with insurers. Additionally, they need to develop internal tools to apply the correct warranty plans to products, build custom UIs, and manage data collection, sharing, and tracking to meet both insurer and regulatory requirements. This entire process can take **six months to a year to go live**.\n2. **Recurring Additional Work:** Maintaining integrations and tools requires dedicated engineering teams. Running the warranty program also requires dedicated time from the operation team. This usually requires **additional hiring**.\n\nBelow is what the current merchant landscape looks like,\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83656&key=user_uploads/456731/0e70aa2b-9c2e-41d7-bc6d-6b292f383590)\n\n### **How is SureBright Solving these problems? 🎉**\n\nSureBright’s **warranty program runs on auto-pilot**, empowering merchants of all sizes and providing the following key benefits:\n\n1. **99% less onboarding time, no onboarding or operating costs**, and no recurring tasks or hiring required. Our end-to-end automated solution ensures you never worry about the warranty program.\n2. **Cover any product** under warranty and offer other insurance products, such as Shipping Insurance, without lifting a finger.\n3. **Enjoy the highest warranty conversions** in the industry, averaging around 20.2%.\n\n**With these benefits, we help merchants boost their bottom line** by up to 12% through warranty margin share. Offering warranties also increases customer trust in the brand, leading to 15.6% more conversions and a 14% increase in Average Order Value. In addition, customers get a better post-purchase experience, resulting in more repeat customers and fewer negative reviews.\n\n### **The “aha” moment? 🎯🧠🧨**\n\nWe began our journey to help smaller merchants (<$100M in sales) offer warranties. 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Growing up, in the summers I worked at my family's grocery store, and saw first hand the challenges my father went through on a day to day basis. 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Our cameras are just the first step- by combining POS, ordering, and camera data, we can automate every back-office process in the store, allowing them to achieve their optimal margins.\\\n\\*\\*Our Ask-\\*\\*\\\nIf you know any grocery or retail store owners who’d love a tireless 24/7 assistant to cut shrink, boost safety, and maximize sales, please loop us in!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NZz-kirana-ai-full-stack-ai-store-manager", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2025-05-22T14:43:07.181Z" } ] }, { "id": 31989, "name": "Pango", "slug": "pango", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d6fb7711e26bf57516e7dcfa35cfadeb5d98b5b2.png", "website": "https://pango.ai/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Pango is a platform for e-commerce companies to use natural language to build agents and automate their logistics operations like delivery and returns.", "one_liner": "Agentic OS for e-commerce operations", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1781764394, "tags": [ "Logistics", "E-commerce", "Retail", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Retail" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pango", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2026/pango.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/pangoai", "x_url": "https://x.com/Pango_ai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pango-ai", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d6fb7711e26bf57516e7dcfa35cfadeb5d98b5b2.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 3288698, "full_name": "Steve Rahimi", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder at Pango (YC S26). 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And how we might be able to change that.\n\nWe spent 12 months embedded in the operations of 30 e-commerce brands\\! Here’s what we learnt:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107204&key=user_uploads/3288698/1a3cc8c3-db71-4d81-b2ad-9679b77f9451)\n\n**What we saw:** Each company had a unique operational setup with a mix of 5 to 7 tools glued together to run the shop. To keep all these tools running smoothly with each other, it requires a lot of tedious admin. As a result, headcount increases as the company scales.\n\nMost companies couldn't even automate a basic return processing, let alone offer exchanging items or build an AI agent to approve returns or send shipping label to the customer.\n\nExpansion made it worse: more countries and/or SKUs = exponentially more problems.\n\n**What we built:** We have built an agentic OS for e-commerce: You connect your shop stack, then describe how you want to handle shipments, returns, refunds, or claims → Pango builds the return portal, fixes the delivery options, and builds a customer service process and agent for you.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107204&key=user_uploads/3288698/ceed8a01-52aa-403a-9986-758da64ff4e4)\n\n**Result:** So far we have managed to automate 99% of returns and shipping operations, reduce operation costs by 20% and sign 30 global brands.\n\nAsk\n\nIntros to:\n\n- Agencies (Shopify/e-commerce)\n- Brands in fashion, beauty, home.\n- Forwardable: \"Pango runs everything after checkout: tracking, returns, and exchanges in one platform. Demo: \" Or book us directly: Or just email me if you are intrested: \n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Rt6-pango-e-commerce-operations-on-autopilot", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2026-07-24T14:19:26.215Z" } ] } ]