Greywing YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Greywing 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: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Hrishi Olickel

What Greywing does

Greywing is a platform for ship operators to automate their business, through actionable intelligence, better data and communication. Greywing today serves three product lines to customers: *Flotilla* is a monitoring tool for vessels, enabling vessel managers to identify fleet-level patterns and optimizations and to identify risk and liability vectors in advance. *CRY4* is an operational tool for individual vessels that allows crew managers, security officers and masters to gather intelligence about a vessels current or proposed route, making decisions about the safest and the cheapest ports of call that a vessel can be directed to. *Landfall* is a crew management and analysis system to provide risk reporting and detailed editing capabilities about the crew on-board a vessel. *Semaphore* is a port-agent communications tool meant to simplify the process of interfacing with large numbers of port agents while planning a port call.

Greywing's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Greywing

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The Operating System for Maritime

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

We built a platform that helps ship operators automate their business by providing actionable intelligence, better data, and streamlined communication. Our product includes four tools: Flotilla, which monitors fleets for patterns and risks; CRY4, an operational app helping vessels choose safe and cost-effective routes and ports; Landfall, a crew management system for risk reporting and crew analysis; and Semaphore, a communications tool simplifying interactions with port agents.

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

We live in Singapore and the company is based here, with a remote presence as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Singapore is a key maritime hub, giving us direct access to ship operators and maritime logistics challenges. It aligns with the customers we serve and the complexity of their operation.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Greywing YC application?

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