Convoy YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Convoy went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 8
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Emmanuel Aina

What Convoy does

We are building Convoy for engineering teams that value efficiency, especially during this bear market. You might already know about API Gateways. Convoy is exactly that for webhooks. Engineering teams today use Convoy to securely send, receive and manage millions of webhooks reliably with robust support for retries, rate limiting, static IPs, circuit breaking, rolling secrets and more. We know both receiving and sending webhooks can become a lot of work to manage, we have built a product to enable engineers to build and ship highly scalable stripe-like webhooks infrastructure.

Convoy's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Convoy, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Convoy

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Webhooks Gateway managing incoming and outgoing webhooks

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

We built Convoy to handle webhooks at scale for engineering teams. It's like an API gateway but specifically for webhooks - managing sending, receiving, retries, rate limiting, circuit breaking, rolling secrets, and static IPs. This reduces the operational work engineers usually face building webhook infrastructure.

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

We have a distributed team across London, Los Angeles, Nigeria, and remote. After YC we will likely stay distributed but maintain a legal base in London and LA.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Engineering teams managing webhooks are distributed globally, and our team reflects that. We want to be close to our users and talent everywhere rather than centrally located.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Convoy YC application?

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