Factored Quality YC Application

Winter 2020Acquired

Factored Quality went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 20
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2020

Founders

Prince GhoshFounder

What Factored Quality does

Factored Quality is a digital QC management tool that brings all quality and compliance operations together in a single unified platform. We help 100+ brands like Brooklinen, The Honest Company, Dr. Squatch, and Canopy Humidifiers run QC, Supplier Audits, and Compliance Testing anywhere in the world.

Factored Quality's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Factored Quality, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Factored Quality

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Unified tool for quality and compliance ops

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

We've built a digital QC management platform that consolidates quality control, supplier audits, and compliance testing in one place. Our customers - brands like Brooklinen and The Honest Company - use it to track and manage inspections globally, cutting through the chaos of scattered spreadsheets, emails, and manual reports.

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

We live in New York and the company is currently based there, with a remote team scattered across multiple locations.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose New York because it's a major hub for supply chain and logistics clients we serve. Also, it lets us stay close to key customers while benefiting from a growing tech community. Remote work helps us tap talent beyond the city.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Factored Quality YC application?

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