Mobot YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Mobot 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 40
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Eden Full GohFounder

What Mobot does

Mobot (YC W19) is a QA-as-a-service platform using actual mechanical robots to automate testing of repetitive functions on real mobile devices. Mobot's human-supervised robots make it possible to automate mobile app tests that emulators, virtual devices, and existing frameworks can't. This approach eliminates thousands of hours of manual testing, increases testing efficiency and physical device coverage, and captures more bugs in-app before app store launches than software can do alone.

Mobot's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Mobot

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

QA platform using mechanical robots

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

We built Mobot, a platform where mechanical robots run tests on real mobile devices to automate repetitive app testing tasks. Unlike emulators and virtual devices, we use physical robots under human supervision to increase test coverage and find more bugs before app store launches.

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

We are based in New York, NY, and the company will remain there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York's access to engineering talent, proximity to enterprise customers, and hardware resources make it the right place to build and scale Mobot.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Mobot YC application?

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