Curo YC Application

Fall 2024Active

Curo went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2024 batch as a Industrials 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: Fall 2024
Industry: IndustrialsAutomotive
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Kieran WhiteCEO & Co-Founder

What Curo does

Curo enables electric vehicle fleets to lease EV chargers. We do this by providing a standardized process so that any EV charger owner can host a fleet, such as an office building overnight when their employees go home. Owners of EV chargers get <15% usage after paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to install, and fleets are rapidly trying to electrify yet charging is a huge bottleneck. Curo increases revenue 5x for charger owners and enables fleets to electrify instantly, at a fraction of the cost. We're live across 5 states, having grown 50% MoM for the past 6 months. Curo is already backed by investors like Blue Bear, Not Boring, Slow and Eniac.

Curo's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Curo, Fall 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Curo

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Electric fleets park and charge anywhere with Curo

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

We provide a platform that lets electric vehicle fleets lease EV chargers from any owner. Our product standardizes the process so fleets can charge at places like office buildings after hours without installing their own chargers. This helps charger owners increase utilization and revenue and lets fleets electrify quickly without major upfront costs.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we and our initial team are based, and it puts us near the startups, investors, and customers driving EV fleet electrification.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Curo YC application?

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