Instacrops YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Instacrops went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 batch as a Industrials 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 2021
Industry: IndustrialsAgriculture
Team size: 34
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Mario BustamanteFounder

What Instacrops does

Instacrops is a simple dashboard that helps farmers maximize their crop yield. We give farmers IoT sensors to put in their field. We combine that data with satellite and drone data to provide analytics on the health of their farms. Farmers use this to increase their crops yield by 12% on average. We’re live on 300+ farms across Latam and have reached more than $200.000 in monthly revenue, growing 2X YoY. There’s 2.9 billion acres of farmland in Latin America which makes this a $50 billion market. We’re instacrops. We’re bringing data driven decisions to farmers worldwide

Instacrops's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Instacrops, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Instacrops

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Helping farmers maximize crop yield

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

We build Instacrops, a dashboard that helps farmers increase crop yield. We provide IoT sensors for the fields and combine that data with satellite and drone imagery. The platform analyzes farm health to guide farmers on how to optimize inputs and practices. Our users are mostly farmers across Latin America looking for practical, data-driven ways to improve harvests.

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

We are based in Santiago, Chile, and plan to remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Latin America is where the farmland and farmers are. Being local in Santiago lets us build relationships with farmers and understand their challenges firsthand.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Instacrops YC application?

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