Membo YC Application

Summer 2021Inactive

Membo went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: ConsumerFood and Beverage
Team size: 3
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Vahur HansenFounder
Paula KinkFounder

What Membo does

Membo is a next-day grocery delivery app for premium customers in Europe. Like PinDuoDuo Groceries in China, Membo is the fastest way to order your weekly groceries directly from local food producers. The convenience of supermarkets & 15-minute grocery apps comes at the expense of freshness: food that should be delivered fresh, gets bought in bulk and sits on warehouse shelves for days. To get the freshest produce, you need quick producer-to-end-customer delivery, not just quick warehouse-to-customer delivery. Membo lets you order food directly from hundreds of local food producers & organises delivery so you always get the freshest version of every product. Membo's CEO, Vahur Hansen, was an early engineer at TransferWise, and co-founder, Paula Kink, built her own healthtech startup. Launched in Dec 2020, we've grown 30% MoM for the past 8 months and have delivered over 4000 orders in Tallinn, Estonia.

Membo's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Membo

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Groceries fresher than a farmer's market, delivered to you

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

We built a next-day grocery delivery app that connects premium customers in Europe directly to local food producers. Unlike traditional supermarkets or fast-delivery apps that store food in warehouses, we organize producer-to-customer delivery, so customers get produce just picked fresh. Our app aggregates hundreds of producers and manages orders and delivery logistics to ensure freshness and convenience.

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

We live and work in Tallinn, Estonia, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Tallinn is where we started and have built our initial customer base and producer network. Being local allows us to work closely with producers and understand our market dynamics firsthand. The team is based here, so it makes sense to continue from Tallinn.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Membo YC application?

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