Movity YC Application

Winter 2010Acquired

Movity went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2010 batch as a Real Estate and Construction 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 2010
Industry: Real Estate and ConstructionHousing and Real Estate
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Sha HwangFounder
Eric WuFounder

What Movity does

Movity provides location-based living facilities and neighborhood data that help home buyers make better decisions. Movity.com surfaces geodata (crime, noise, pricing, etc) to help home buyers make better decisions. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Movity's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Movity, Winter 2010 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Movity

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Real estate data visualization

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

We built Movity to help home buyers easily see neighborhood data like crime rates, noise levels, and pricing on a map. Our product combines multiple location-based data points to give buyers clearer insight into what living in a specific area would be like, so they can make smarter decisions without digging through multiple sources.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company is based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is our home and the center of the real estate tech ecosystem we're targeting. Being here connects us to early users, potential partners, and resources that matter.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Movity YC application?

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