Instawork YC Application

Summer 2015Active

Instawork went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2015 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: Summer 2015
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Team size: 500
Status: Active
Launched: 2015

Founders

Sumir MeghaniFounder/CEO

What Instawork does

Instawork is the on-demand staffing app for hourly workers and hospitality businesses. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for local businesses and professionals, globally. Workers need a better way to find great local jobs and businesses need a better way to find quality workers fast.

Instawork's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Instawork, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Instawork

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

App connecting hourly workers with businesses

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

We built an app that connects hospitality and hourly businesses with local workers who want flexible shifts. Businesses post shifts and workers book them instantly, solving the problem of hard-to-fill hourly jobs and inconsistent work for workers.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA. The company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our users and business customers are concentrated and where we have access to the talent and capital we need to build and grow the platform.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Instawork YC application?

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