Anakin YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Anakin went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2021
Industry: B2BRetail
Team size: 70
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Mohit PrateekFounder
Rashmi BalaFounder

What Anakin does

Anakin is building a fully automated pricing engine for eCommerce and on-demand service companies. We help them increase their revenue by upto 12% by optimizing the pricing, products and trends data of their competitors. We do that by collecting data and generating actionable insights. Our pricing engine automatically changes the prices of hundreds of millions of products across 30+ countries in real-time. Anakin is profitable and growing every month with 15+ multi-billion-dollar companies as clients.

Anakin's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Anakin

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automate pricing for eCommerce and on-demand companies

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

We build a real-time automated pricing engine that collects competitor prices and trends across 30+ countries. Our engine adjusts prices on hundreds of millions of products for eCommerce and on-demand service companies, helping them increase revenue by up to 12%.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is a hub for eCommerce and AI talent, which fits our focus on automated pricing and allows us to hire highly skilled engineers and sell to large clients.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Anakin YC application?

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