Avocado YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Avocado 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: B2BRetail
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Nick EvansFounder
Shayan GuhaFounder

What Avocado does

Avocado is a modern point-of-sale system for restaurants, powered by a built-in AI agent. More than just a POS, Avocado combines order management, KDS, kiosks, and online ordering in one platform - and lets restaurants control everything with simple voice or text commands. Want to change your menu, check your sales, or optimize pricing? Just ask. Avocado’s AI understands your business and takes action instantly, freeing up owners and staff to focus on what matters most: great food and service.

Avocado's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Avocado

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-Native Restaurant POS

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

We built Avocado, a point-of-sale system designed for restaurants that integrates order management, KDS, kiosks, and online ordering into one platform. What sets us apart is the built-in AI agent that lets restaurant staff and owners control their entire business through simple voice or text commands. For example, you can manage your menu, track sales, or tweak pricing by just asking the system. Our AI understands the nuances of restaurant operations and executes these tasks instantly, freeing up time for frontline staff to focus on serving customers.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and built the product. It's the hub for restaurant technology startups and AI talent, so it's the best place for us to recruit, sell, and iterate quickly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Avocado YC application?

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