CUTR YC Application

Winter 2022Active

CUTR 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: 22
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Oscar PeppittFounder
Rodny HeemskerkFounder
Jasper MittelmeijerFounder

What CUTR does

Look around you - everything you see that was made with wood a designer conceived and then a woodworker has made. Most of the time, something went painfully wrong. 60% of the $1.4T global woodworking market is serviced by small businesses with inefficient, manual processes - Cutr is digitising their workflow. This market is massive, chaotic and surprisingly manual. Woodworkers are mostly offline, hard to find and even harder to vet. They need help with critical back-of-house jobs like quoting and capacity planning. Customers have no idea where to find them and need help asking the right questions & providing the right info to get their job produced correctly. Cutr solves discovery, pricing, payments and workflow for the woodworking market. Our users simply upload a file, accept an instant quote, and get their parts delivered. To make that possible we do the heavy lifting: filechecks, automated quoting, matchmaking, creating job packages, tracking changes & updates, logistics and payments. Cutr saves time, cuts costs and ensures quality with a smooth workflow.

CUTR's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

CUTR

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The marketplace for wood manufacturing

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

We built a platform that connects wood designers and customers with small woodworking shops. Users upload a design file, get an instant quote, and have parts made and delivered. Under the hood, we handle file validation, automated pricing, matchmaking with vetted manufacturers, job packages, updates, logistics, and payments. We digitize the traditionally manual processes in woodworking to save time and reduce errors.

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

We live in Amsterdam, NH, Netherlands, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Amsterdam is where our team and network are based and where the woodworking market we serve is active. Being here keeps us close to our users and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real CUTR YC application?

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