Cinder YC Application

Winter 2015Inactive

Cinder went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 batch as a Consumer 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 2015
Industry: ConsumerConsumer Electronics
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2014

Founders

Eric NormanFounder/CEO
Jim ReichFounder/CTO

What Cinder does

Cinder designs and manufactures premium smart cooking appliances that empower people who love great food to evolve the way they cook and eat at home.

Cinder's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Cinder, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cinder

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The World's First Countertop Precision Grill

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

We make Cinder, a countertop smart grill that uses two ceramic heating elements to precisely control temperature. It lets people who care about cooking control their grilling indoors with consistency and precision that standard grills or stoves can't match.

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

We live in Palo Alto, CA and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in Palo Alto because it's where we live and the hub for hardware startups and technical talent, which helps in iterating quickly and building the product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cinder YC application?

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