Attain YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Attain went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2B
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Aamir HuddaFounder
Joseph YehFounder

What Attain does

Attain is a one-stop shop for convenience store owners to buy inventory across all their suppliers with higher reliability, price transparency, and product discovery. On average, store owners buy products from over 10-15 different suppliers each week. This painful process involves shopping in massive warehouses or spending hours working with wholesaler’s sales representatives (who sometimes don’t even show up). As a result, stores waste countless hours ordering products through extremely inefficient and tedious processes. These store owners are also severely impacted by inventory shortages and revenue loss which many times results in them downsizing their business or shutting them down completely. Attain solves this problem by providing a single app to purchase products across all of their suppliers, resulting in a one-stop shop for inventory. By aggregating inventory across a multitude of suppliers and wholesalers, Attain helps stores save significant time and money while allowing them to focus on what they do best - growing their businesses. Feel free to reach out at!

Attain's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Attain, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Attain

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

One-Stop Shop for Convenience Store Inventory

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

We built a platform that lets convenience store owners order all their inventory from multiple suppliers through a single app. It aggregates supplier inventories so stores avoid juggling dozens of contacts and visits each week. Our product reduces the time and hassle of ordering, improves price transparency, and helps stores avoid shortages that kill revenue.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and the company will be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where most tech and startup support exists. It's the right place to build a complex supply chain platform and access our early customers and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Attain YC application?

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