Moonshot Brands YC Application

Winter 2021Inactive

Moonshot Brands went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 batch as a Fintech 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 2021
Industry: FintechAsset Management
Team size: 35
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Craig IsakowFounder
Allan (Amnon) FischFounder

What Moonshot Brands does

Moonshot Brands is building the world’s largest - next-generation CPG (Consumer Product Goods) e-commerce company. We look for profitable e-commerce companies on Amazon or selling DTC on Shopify, purchase them from the founders giving them liquidity for their biggest asset, then turbocharge the growth with our proprietary data-driven technology platform and team. We scale e-commerce brands globally.

Moonshot Brands's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Moonshot Brands, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Moonshot Brands

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Buy and grow profitable Amazon and DTC brands

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

We buy profitable e-commerce brands selling on Amazon or DTC Shopify stores, then use our proprietary data platform and operational team to grow them rapidly at scale. Our product is the entire acquisition plus growth engine focused on consumer product goods online.

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

We live across Miami, Toronto, Washington DC, and remote; we plan to keep a distributed team after YC to take advantage of talent and market diversity.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our team is spread out where e-commerce talent and investors are. Maintaining geographic flexibility gives us access to diverse operators and partners crucial for sourcing brands and scaling them globally.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Moonshot Brands YC application?

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