Lumoid YC Application

Summer 2013Acquired

Lumoid went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2013 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: Summer 2013
Industry: ConsumerConsumer Electronics
Team size: 11
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2013

Founders

Aarthi RamamurthyFounder/CEO

What Lumoid does

We are a try before you buy service for consumer electronics.

Lumoid's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lumoid, Summer 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lumoid

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Try before you buy service for electronics

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

We have built a try before you buy service focused on consumer electronics. Customers can rent electronics to test them out before committing to purchase. This helps people make informed buying decisions on expensive, complicated tech like cameras or headphones.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our network, customers, and talent are. It's the best place to build a consumer electronics e-commerce service.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lumoid YC application?

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