Asakana YC Application
San Francisco
Asakana went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2026 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
- Fall 2026
- Industry
- ConsumerFood and Beverage
- Location
- San Francisco
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
What Asakana does
Restaurants send orders to food distributors by email, text, and photo. Someone at the distributor retypes every one of them into the ERP. Asakana does that entry instead: orders land in the ERP already entered, and anything unclear goes to a person before it goes in. Live at US seafood distributors today, returning 40%+ of order-desk time to selling. Founded by a seafood distributor and a Gemini builder.
Asakana's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Asakana, Fall 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Asakana
AI order entry for food distributors: emails and texts to ERP
Restaurants send orders to food distributors by email, text, or photo, and today someone at the distributor has to retype every order into the ERP. Asakana automatically enters these orders into the ERP, only sending unclear info to a person. Order-desk teams get hours back instead of doing manual entry. It works today at seafood distributors in the US.
San Francisco, CA, USA. The company would be based in San Francisco after YC.
San Francisco is where we live and it's the best spot for SaaS and AI builders. Most of our users are in the US.
21 more answers in the full application
Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Asakana YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Asakana's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Asakana would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Asakana in?
Asakana was part of the Y Combinator Fall 2026 batch.
What does Asakana do?
AI order entry for food distributors: emails and texts to ERP
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Asakana's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
