Forge YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Forge went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Emir SahmanovicFounder
Haris SahmanovicFounder

What Forge does

Forge helps companies recover tariffs and duties paid on imported goods that are later exported or scrapped by automating a process called duty drawback. Billions of dollars of eligible refunds go unclaimed every year. We take full ownership of the process from organizing data to filing claims so businesses can unlock this extra revenue with minimal effort.

Forge's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Forge, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Forge

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Getting companies refunds on tariffs & duties

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

Forge automates duty drawback, the process companies use to recover tariffs and duties paid on imported goods that are later exported or scrapped. We handle everything from organizing the complex data to filing claims so businesses can unlock refunds without extra effort.

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

We live in New York, NY, and after YC the company will remain based in New York.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where we live and have built our network related to supply chain and logistics. Staying here lets us stay close to our early users and the heart of import/export businesses.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Forge YC application?

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