Mobydish YC Application

Winter 2015Acquired

Mobydish went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BRetail
Team size: 10
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2014

Founders

Bruno DidierFounder/CEO

What Mobydish does

MobyDish, a tech-enabled service, allowing anyone to place a catering order online in less than 3min to feed people from 10 to 1,000 people. We select the best restaurants, hire and train our fleet of drivers who will deliver and setup and we're proud to have the best customer service in the space. We also offer on site catering host and premium service that can be requested in up to 48hours in advance. We own our tech from online ordering, to manage and dispatch orders to drivers, and build customer relationship. We're used by top companies in the biggest cities in the US and we help for our customers with any needs from breakfast, lunch, happy hour and dinner. We are known for our flexibility, reliability and provide recurring and last-minute catering orders.

Mobydish's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Mobydish, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Mobydish

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Online catering ordering for 10 to 1,000 people

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

We built an end-to-end tech platform that lets anyone order catering online in under three minutes, for groups from 10 to 1,000. We connect customers to the best restaurants, handle delivery with our trained drivers, and offer setup and onsite hosts as premium service. Our system manages orders, dispatch, and customer relationships all in-house.

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

We live and work in Austin, TX and San Francisco, CA, with a remote team; we plan to keep the company based in these locations after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose these locations because Austin and San Francisco are hubs for technology and food service innovation. Having teams there gives us access to restaurants, drivers, and customers in major US cities.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Mobydish YC application?

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