BusinessOnBot YC Application

Winter 2021Active

BusinessOnBot 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: B2BOperations
Team size: 25
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Kirushanth KumarFounder

What BusinessOnBot does

We help D2C brands and SMBs in India acquire customers and sell on WhatsApp. We do this by offering attribution based marketing and storefront ordering through a commerce bot with vernacular support.

BusinessOnBot's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

BusinessOnBot

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automated WhatsApp user acquisition and sales

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

We build a commerce bot that helps D2C brands and SMBs in India acquire customers and sell directly through WhatsApp. Our product combines attribution-based marketing to track where customers come from and storefront ordering with support for local languages.

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

We live in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Bengaluru is the center of India's startup ecosystem with access to engineering talent and customers in the Indian D2C and SMB space. Staying local helps us stay close to our users' language and commerce preferences.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real BusinessOnBot YC application?

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