Miso YC Application

Summer 2016Active

Miso went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2016 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 2016
Industry: ConsumerHome and Personal
Team size: 100
Status: Active
Launched: 2016

Founders

Victor ChingFounder/CEO

What Miso does

Miso makes booking services as easy as buying products online. We offer over 1,000 different services ranging from cleaning to moving to interior remodeling, lessons and more. We have fulfilled more than $1.5 billion in transactions serving over 1.5 million households.

Miso's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Miso, Summer 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Miso

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

We make booking services as easy as buying products

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

We built a platform that lets users book a wide range of home services - from cleaning to moving to remodeling and lessons - in one place, with a user experience as simple as e-commerce checkouts. Our AI assistant helps match customers to the right service quickly, handling thousands of service types and thousands of transactions daily.

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

We live in Seoul, South Korea, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Seoul is where our users and service providers are, and where our team lives. The market here is large and needs a better booking experience, so we stay close to the action.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Miso YC application?

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