Abatable YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Abatable went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 batch as a Industrials company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2021
Industry: IndustrialsClimate
Team size: 35
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Maria Eugenia FilmanovicFounder
Valerio MagliuloFounder

What Abatable does

Abatable is a carbon offsetting procurement platform which connects companies with carbon project developers of high quality carbon offsets. Abatable facilitates procurement decisions by offering third party quality assessments of projects and by standardizing multi-year purchase agreements and an automated RFP platform. The team has extensive experience advising institutional investors on nature-based carbon removal and impact investment portfolios and is backed by leading investors like YCombinator, BlueBear Capital and Global Founders Capital.

Abatable's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Abatable, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Abatable

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Carbon markets platform and solutions

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built Abatable to connect companies with high-quality carbon offset project developers. Our platform simplifies and standardizes multi-year purchase agreements and offers automated RFP workflows, with third-party quality assessments to help companies make better procurement decisions in complex carbon markets.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in London and the company is based here. After YC, we would continue building the company here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

London is a global financial hub and home to many institutional investors and corporations focused on climate. Being here puts us close to users, investors, and carbon project developers, which is crucial for our network-driven business.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Abatable YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Abatable's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Abatable would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.