Cartage YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Cartage went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 12
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Abdul BasharatFounder
Josh LampenFounder

What Cartage does

Cartage is the future of freight coordination. Transparent, tech-driven and eliminating the need for human coordinators.

Cartage's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Cartage, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cartage

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Autonomous freight coordination

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

We built a platform that automates freight coordination using machine learning and workflow automation. Our product replaces manual human coordinators by transparently matching shipments with freight carriers, streamlining complex logistics workflows for supply chain operators.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and Cartage is based here. We plan to stay in San Francisco after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the logistics tech hub with access to talent and potential customers. Being here puts us close to supply chain operators experimenting with automation and AI.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cartage YC application?

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