FoodCourt YC Application

Summer 2022Active

FoodCourt went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 batch as a Consumer 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 2022
Industry: ConsumerFood and Beverage
Team size: 80
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Henry NnejiFounder
Paul Adokiye IrueneFounder

What FoodCourt does

FoodCourt (CoKitchen) is Africa's leading virtual restaurant company. We've served over 350,000 meals in the last 12 months & our goal is to make good food and quick convenience goods more accessible across Africa, through virtual restaurants & dark stores. Understanding the unique problems of the African on-demand/ food delivery market, we've taken a full-stack approach by controlling different areas of the value chain such as technology, production & delivery to give users a seamless & consistent experience while giving us unlimited flexibility for growth. Learn more at or email

FoodCourt's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

FoodCourt, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

FoodCourt

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa

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

We run virtual restaurants and dark stores tailored for the African market. We control technology, production, and delivery to provide quick access to meals and convenience goods at scale. Our product integrates order management, kitchen operations, and last-mile delivery to serve over 350,000 meals a year.

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

We live and are based in Lagos, Nigeria. Post-YC, we plan to keep the company headquartered in Lagos.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Lagos is the heart of our market and operations. Being here allows us to understand the local on-demand food delivery challenges and meet our customers' needs directly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real FoodCourt YC application?

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