Nambii YC Application

Winter 2009Inactive

Nambii went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2009 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: Winter 2009
Industry: ConsumerSocial
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

James BoyleFounder
Jodie PenwithFounder

What Nambii does

Nambii is an online dating service with iPhone applications that allow users to send and receive flirts with people around them.

Nambii's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Nambii, Winter 2009 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Nambii

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

iPhone app for sending and receiving flirts nearby

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

We built Nambii, an online dating service centered on iPhone apps that let users send and receive flirts in their immediate area. It's designed to facilitate casual connections by making flirting quick and location-based.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company would be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the right mix of tech talent and early adopters for a mobile social dating app, making it the best place to build and test Nambii.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Nambii YC application?

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