Nowports YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Nowports went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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: Winter 2019
Industry: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 550
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Alfonso de los Rios VillarealFounder/CEO
Maximiliano CasalFounder

What Nowports does

Nowports is the first digital Freight Forwarder shipping ocean containers to and from Latin America. One out of every two containers gets lost or delayed due to miscommunication and lack of management. The platform reduces human mistakes to 0% and saves up to 40% of delays with Nowports models and algorithms. Nowports assist companies so moving ocean containers is fast, simple and secure.

Nowports's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Nowports, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Nowports

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The core engine of supply chain in LATAM

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

We have built a digital freight forwarding platform that ships ocean containers to and from Latin America. It automates the entire ocean shipping process for businesses by reducing human error and managing container logistics, saving time and minimizing delays that commonly happen due to miscommunication and manual tracking failures.

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

We are based in Latin America and plan to stay there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our product is focused on the Latin American supply chain, so it makes sense to be close to our customers and market. Being local helps us understand the unique challenges of ocean shipping in LATAM.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Nowports YC application?

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