Adla YC Application

Summer 2019Inactive

Adla went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 batch as a Consumer 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 2019
Industry: ConsumerApparel and Cosmetics
Team size: 3
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2020

Founders

Harry BergFounder
Holly LeslieFounder

What Adla does

Adla curates and delivers clothes to try on at home for free, you only pay for what you want to keep and Adla picks up any returns. We're starting in colleges.

Adla's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Adla, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Adla

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Department store for e-commerce

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

We built a service that selects clothes for customers to try on at home for free. Users only pay for what they keep, and we handle returns without hassle. We're starting with college students as our main customers.

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

We live in Charlotte, NC and our team is remote. Post-YC, we plan to keep the company based in Charlotte with remote work continuing.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Charlotte is where we started and where most of our team is located. It keeps our costs manageable and lets us focus on building the product without distractions.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Adla YC application?

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