Expent Inc YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Expent Inc went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 10
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Harikrishna NarayananFounder
Srikanth VeeraraghavanFounder

What Expent Inc does

Expent is a marketplace that accelerates software procurement for teams, while giving organizations control over the entire purchasing process.

Expent Inc's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Expent Inc, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Expent Inc

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Procure the right software 5x faster

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

We built a marketplace that accelerates software procurement for teams. It connects organizations with curated software options and tools to control the purchasing process end-to-end. Our product reduces the typical back-and-forth and complexity around buying software for businesses.

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

We live in Fremont, CA, with some team members remote. The company will continue to be based in Fremont after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Fremont is where we're based due to proximity to the Bay Area tech ecosystem while maintaining lower operational costs. Remote work allows us to tap talent beyond local constraints.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Expent Inc YC application?

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