Bulldozair YC Application

Summer 2016Acquired

Bulldozair went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2016 batch as a Real Estate and Construction 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 2016
Industry: Real Estate and ConstructionConstruction
Team size: 8
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2016

Founders

Ali El HaririFounder/CEO
Maxence LerignerFounder/CTO

What Bulldozair does

Bulldozair is a technology company backed by Y Combinator (US), Station F (EU) and Kima Ventures (EU). We provide a collaborative web and mobile platform that helps companies that own real estate or industrial assets to deliver their construction projects on time and on budget. Bulldozair digitally integrates all the construction process, compliance and checklists and deliver them to contractors and engineering teams. Users follow their project progress on Dashboard and are alerted anytime there is a potential delay or technical risk and can collaborate online with those companies to solve problems. With their mobile application, construction teams collect data on the field (forms, measurements, pictures, plans...) that are uploaded directly on a collaborative platform. All that communication between stakeholders is archived for traceability. All the legal and contractual reporting that took weeks is now done automatically. Bulldozair is now deployed across the biggest names of the corporate world in infrastructure construction but also in manufacturing, energy and retail.

Bulldozair's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Bulldozair, Summer 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Bulldozair

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Construction management platform

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

We built a collaborative web and mobile platform that helps companies owning real estate and industrial assets manage construction projects. Our platform integrates construction processes, compliance checklists, and field data collection to keep projects on time and budget. Construction teams use our mobile app on site to upload measurements, pictures, and reports that update the central system. Project managers track everything from a dashboard and get alerts for risks or delays. We also automate legal and contractual reporting that used to take weeks.

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

We live in Paris, Île-de-France, France, and the company is based here. After YC, we intend to stay based in Paris but leverage YC's network in the US.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in Paris because that is where our network and industry clients are. The French construction and real estate sectors have been receptive to our digital approach, and Paris is a great hub with access to Europe's leading corporations in manufacturing, energy, and infrastructure construction.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Bulldozair YC application?

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