Maitian.ai YC Application

Winter 2019Inactive

Maitian.ai went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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: Winter 2019
Industry: B2BRetail
Team size: 5
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2018

Founders

Wenfeng XiaFounder
Ye XiaFounder

What Maitian.ai does

Open, grab-n-go marketplace powered by computer vision. We invite partners like chained restaurants to run most of the logistics. By giving them more customers, we get a cut of each sale;)

Maitian.ai's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Maitian.ai, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Maitian.ai

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

We make $1,000 Amazon Go stores

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

We build an open grab-and-go marketplace that uses computer vision to let customers pick items without checkout lines. Our system integrates with partner chains like restaurants who handle most logistics. This gives them more customers and us a cut of sales.

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

We live in Singapore and the company is based here now and will continue to be after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Singapore has a robust retail tech ecosystem and access to partners like chained restaurants. It lets us test real stores in a vibrant market before scaling.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Maitian.ai YC application?

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