Kaagaz YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Kaagaz 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: Consumer
Team size: 11
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Snehanshu GandhiFounder
Tamanjit BindraFounder
Gaurav ShrishrimalFounder

What Kaagaz does

Kaagaz is an 'Office' Suite for Mobile-first Businesses in India. With Kaagaz, these users can manage all the document requirements for their business using their smartphone itself, without needing a Desktop. We have an active user base of 3Mn+ users and paid users north of 60,000+ - growing every month. With over 200M such businesses in India, at $15/year subscription price, this a $3B opportunity in India & much larger globally. We are a team of 2nd time entrepreneurs having scaled the pervious startup to $1M in GMV. We are backed by YCombinator, Goodwater Capital, Pravega Venture, Better Capital & other investors including Alan Rutledge (TrendMD) and Farid Ahsan (Sharechat)

Kaagaz's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Kaagaz

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

'Office' Suite for Mobile-first Businesses

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

Kaagaz is an office suite designed specifically for mobile-first small businesses in India. It lets business owners handle all their document-related needs on their smartphones, removing the need to use a desktop. Our app helps them create, edit, and manage official documents necessary for running their business in a way that fits their mobile-first lifestyle.

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

We live in New Delhi, India, and would keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We built Kaagaz to serve small businesses across India, so being located in Delhi keeps us close to our users and the ecosystem we serve. It also lets us tap into India's mobile-centric markets directly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Kaagaz YC application?

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