Alokai YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Alokai went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 batch as a B2B 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: Winter 2021
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 100
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Patrick FridayFounder
Filip RakowskiFounder
Bart RoszkowskiFounder

What Alokai does

Alokai is an award-winning and pioneering global technology startup setting a new standard in online shopping. Alokai is a Frontend as a Service solution that simplifies composable commerce. It connects all the technologies needed to build and deploy fast & scalable ecommerce frontends.Founded in 2021, Alokai (prev. Vue Storefront) is a best-in-class composable commerce solution and market-leading Frontend as a Service currently used by 3000+ live stores around the world. With a remote, global team of 100+ people and offices in San Francisco and Warsaw, Poland, customers include Movado, SPAR Inc., or Brompton Bikes. Supported by 130+ partners and a community of 10,000+ developers, Alokai and its leaders are recipients of several industry awards, including Europe’s top tech startup prize and recognition from Forbes magazine.

Alokai's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Alokai, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Alokai

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Frontend Platform for eCommerce

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

We build Alokai, a Frontend as a Service platform that connects all the tools needed to build fast and scalable ecommerce frontends. It simplifies composable commerce by providing a unified solution for integrating frontend technologies with ecommerce backends. Our product is used by thousands of stores worldwide who want to rapidly launch performant, customizable storefronts without rebuilding from scratch.

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

We live in Warsaw, Poland, and work remotely across multiple locations. After YC, the company would remain remote but maintain strong presence in Warsaw and San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Poland has been a great base for engineering talent and product development, and maintaining a global remote team lets us tap expertise worldwide while keeping key hubs in Warsaw and San Francisco for customer and partner relations.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Alokai YC application?

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