garten YC Application

Summer 2016Acquired

garten went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2016 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 2016
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 201
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2016

Founders

Michael HeinrichFounder/CEO

What garten does

We're a Top YCombinator S16 and YCG F19 company empowering people to live healthy and blissful lives. We create healthy and happy employees through nutrition and wellness services. We have built a sophisticated tech stack utilizing AI and IoT to enable a flexible supply chain, being completely asset lite, and full wellbeing analytics. We work with some of world’s top companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Kaiser, Stanford, Stripe, Nike, Lyft, and many more.

garten's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

garten, Summer 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

garten

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Creating workplace wellbeing.

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

We built a platform that delivers nutrition and wellness services to employees in large companies. Our tech uses AI and IoT to manage a flexible, asset-light supply chain that can scale healthy food and wellness offerings while providing detailed wellbeing analytics to employers.

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

We are based in Burlingame, CA and would continue here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Burlingame is where our team and infrastructure are established, close to many of our enterprise customers and tech partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real garten YC application?

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