Canary Technologies YC Application

Summer 2018Active

Canary Technologies went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 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: Summer 2018
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 150
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Harman NarulaFounder
SJ SawhneyFounder

What Canary Technologies does

We bring paper based workflows in hospitality online. Canary's solutions are trusted by hotels worldwide, including Ace Hotel Group, Four Season, Wyndham Hotels, Classic Hotels, and others. We are going to eat all of hospitality software.

Canary Technologies's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Canary Technologies, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Canary Technologies

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Modernizing the hospitality tech stack

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

We build Canary, a SaaS platform that digitizes and automates paper-based workflows in hotels. Our product replaces manual, error-prone processes used by hotel staff for operations and maintenance with a streamlined online system, trusted by major clients like Ace Hotel and Four Seasons.

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

We live in New York City and San Francisco; we plan to keep our company based in both after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is our headquarters and where we built initial traction; San Francisco helps us access tech talent and remain close to YC and Silicon Valley networks.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Canary Technologies YC application?

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