Nomiku YC Application

Winter 2015Inactive

Nomiku went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 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 2015
Industry: ConsumerHome and Personal
Team size: 11
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2014

Founders

Lisa Q. FettermanFounder/CEO
Abe FettermanFounder/CTO

What Nomiku does

Founded in 2012, Nomiku invented the home sous vide immersion circulator and are make it connected. Proudly manufactured in the United States, Nomiku’s quality is renowned in the culinary world and put to the test in thousands of homes and the best restaurants in the world every night. Chefs on Main Street, Michelin-starred restaurants, and most everywhere in between have been dazzling diners with their sous vide creations for years. Nomiku led the way for people to use it at home in 2012 with the invention of the home sous vide immersion circulator funded by two successful Kickstarter projects totaling over $1.3M raised. They turned this modernist gadget into a useful everyday kitchen tool by dramatically reducing the price of the machine and redesigning it from the bottom up for at-home functionality. Five years later, the sous vide machine is turning into a mainstream darling and the advent of the Nomiku Sous Chef Meal delivery program (launching on May 15, 2017) breaks the last barriers to make sous vide accessible to everybody. The Nomiku Sous Chef launch comes at the heels of Samsung Ventures participating in an investment round in the startup. Nomiku is a partner of the Samsung Family Hub 2.0 program and allows for app integration into their smart kitchen offering.

Nomiku's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Nomiku

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Home sous vide immersion circulator

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

We make the Nomiku, a home sous vide immersion circulator that lets people cook restaurant-quality meals at home by precisely controlling water temperature. It's designed to be affordable, easy to use, and connected to smart kitchen devices, so anyone can cook with confidence.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team and suppliers are located, making it easier to iterate on hardware and software quickly. The Bay Area also connects us to smart kitchen and retail partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Nomiku YC application?

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