GimBooks YC Application

Winter 2021Active

GimBooks went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2021
Industry: B2BFinance and Accounting
Team size: 16
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Yash AgrawalFounder

What GimBooks does

GimBooks offers a cloud based and Mobile First book keeping and business management platform, geared mainly towards small and micro-sized businesses of India, which is easy to use and uniquely offers domain based bookkeeping and Integrated banking.

GimBooks's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

GimBooks, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

GimBooks

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Bookkeeping made easy for small businesses

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

We built a cloud-based, mobile-first bookkeeping app designed specifically for small and micro businesses in India. It simplifies accounting through domain-based bookkeeping and integrates banking, so users can manage their finances and business operations in one place.

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

We live in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, where GimBooks is based today. After YC, we plan to remain based here while expanding our team and reach.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Raipur is where we started and have deep ground knowledge of the market. Staying here lets us operate close to our core users - small Indian businesses - and build product features tailored to their needs without the overhead of relocating.

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 GimBooks YC application?

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