Guesty YC Application

Winter 2014Active

Guesty went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2014 batch as a Real Estate and Construction 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 2014
Industry: Real Estate and ConstructionHousing and Real Estate
Team size: 700
Status: Active
Launched: 2013

Founders

Amiad SotoFounder/CEO
Koby SotoFounder/CTO

What Guesty does

Guesty’s property management software provides property managers and management companies with an end-to-end solution to simplify the complex operational needs of short term rentals. With Guesty, users can manage listings from multiple online travel agencies including Airbnb, Booking.com, Agoda and TripAdvisor, and utilize the company’s guest-centric tools including: Unified Inbox, Automation Tools, 24/7 Guest Communication Services, Payment Processing and more.

Guesty's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Guesty, Winter 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Guesty

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Management platform for short term rentals

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

We built a property management platform that handles the operational challenges faced by short term rental managers. Our product connects to multiple OTAs like Airbnb and Booking.com, gives a unified inbox for guest messages, automates routine tasks, manages payments, and offers 24/7 guest communication services to simplify running hundreds or thousands of listings.

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

We live in New York City, and after YC the company would remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where short term rental companies and property managers operate at scale, and where our team is based. Being close to our users and the real estate market here helps us build a more practical product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Guesty YC application?

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