Heyfood YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Heyfood went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 batch as a Consumer 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 2022
Industry: ConsumerFood and Beverage
Team size: 40
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Taiwo AkinropoFounder
Demilade OdetaraFounder

What Heyfood does

Heyfood is building the “Doordash for Africa”. But unlike Doordash in America, we make a profit on every single delivery, from day 1. We are targeting Millennials and Gen Z urban professionals in Africa’s top 70 cities, withing 10 years there will be 140m number of these people, we assume they will want to order food once a week, we make $1 per delivery, this represents a $51B market.

Heyfood's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Heyfood, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Heyfood

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Doordash for Africa

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

We built a delivery platform for food in Africa's top 70 cities targeted at Millennials and Gen Z urban professionals. Our app connects users to local restaurants and couriers. Unlike other food delivery options, we run profitable deliveries from day one.

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

We live in Ibadan, Nigeria, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Ibadan is our home and a growing city where demand for food delivery is rising but there is little reliable service. It allows us to build locally with real customers and talent before expanding across Africa urban centers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Heyfood YC application?

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