Nash YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Nash went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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: Summer 2021
Industry: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 40
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Mahmoud GhulmanCo-founder & CEO
Aziz AlghunaimFounder

What Nash does

Last mile is a $500B industry powering digital commerce but managed largely with self managed API integrations. Nash approaches last mile orchestration with information completeness solutions from checkout, courier management, customer engagement, and post-purchase experience. Doing this enables merchants and customers to capture immense efficiencies, drive better customer experience, reliability and business outcomes. We are working towards a mission of processing a double digit percentage of every physical last-mile transaction. We achieve this by providing top of the market modules for each step of the customer journey and leveraging the network effects from having more information that allows traditional competitors to collaborate. It’s a big mission, but we are already seeing strong market pull as we are already serving some of the largest retailers in the world like Walmart, 7-Eleven and Woolworths. Nash was founded in 2021 by Mahmoud Ghulman (2x Founder, MIT) and Aziz Alghunaim (2x Founder, 2x YC, Ex-Palantir, MIT) and has raised funding from top investors, including Y-Combinator and a16z, to build the world’s best logistics infrastructure platform. We are based in SF.

Nash's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Nash, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Nash

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Digital logistics infrastructure for commerce

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

We build software modules that manage last mile logistics for large retailers covering checkout, courier operations, customer engagement, and post-purchase experience. Our product centralizes and connects fragmented APIs to provide complete information flow that improves delivery reliability and efficiency.

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.

SF is the right place for access to top engineering talent and proximity to customers in large commerce and logistics markets.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Nash YC application?

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