Ivy Homes YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Ivy Homes went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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: Summer 2021
Industry: Real Estate and ConstructionHousing and Real Estate
Team size: 80
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Pritam ThakurFounder

What Ivy Homes does

Selling a home is a super stressful affair due to the uncertainties involved. We help smoothen that process by guaranteeing a fair price and offering that value upfront for the seller. We’ve built up an information system that captures the details of all real estate transactions. We’ve further developed a pricing model on top of it that helps determine the value of a home. We use this to offer liquidity to the seller by making an instant offer to purchase their house. We then refurb the property as necessary and further sell through our channel partners.

Ivy Homes's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Ivy Homes

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

We make instant offers to buy homes in India

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

We provide homeowners in India an instant cash offer to buy their property. We built a data system capturing real estate transactions and a pricing model to value homes. Sellers get liquidity immediately without the uncertainty typical of home sales. We refurbish the homes and sell them through partners.

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

We are based in Bengaluru, KA, India and will continue to be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Bengaluru is the tech hub where our team and ecosystem are located. It gives us access to talent and proximity to customers in India where our market is.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Ivy Homes YC application?

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