fluke YC Application

Summer 2021Active

fluke went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2021
Industry: B2B
Team size: 26
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Marcos Oliveira JrFounder
Augusto PinheiroFounder

What fluke does

Brazilians hate the experience of using the traditional mobile carriers. They force you to pay for data packages you don’t need and make it impossible to switch your plans. Fluke offers a better customer experience and that’s why we have a CAC that is 50% lower and an LTV that’s 30% higher than traditional carriers. What’s smart about our approach is we rent infrastructure from these incumbents and build a better customer experience on top of it. This keeps our costs lows and lets us focus on what really matters: the customer experience! We have the best network and customers are switching to us because of the service and flexibility to build their own customized mobile plans. We are doing in telco what Nubank did in banking in Brazil. We are Fluke, thank you!

fluke's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

fluke, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

fluke

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Full-digital mobile operator in Brazil

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

We built a full-digital mobile operator that rents infrastructure from Brazil's traditional carriers and offers customers a much better experience. Users can create customized mobile plans without paying for data they don't need or being locked into rigid packages. Our product focuses entirely on flexibility and user control, cutting acquisition costs by half and increasing customer lifetime value significantly compared to incumbents.

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

We live in São Carlos, SP, Brazil, and the company is based here and would stay here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

São Carlos is home for all three founders and central to our operations. Staying here keeps the team focused and connected to our early users in Brazil's mobile market, where the problem we solve is very real.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real fluke YC application?

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