Oway YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Oway went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 16
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Phillip NadjafovFounder + CEO

What Oway does

Oway is an AI-driven freight platform that turns America’s empty truck space into a new category of freight shipping. Every year 50% of U.S. truck space goes unused, a $100B+ inefficiency. Oway uses AI to automatically price, match, and sell that space in real time, giving businesses freight shipping that is dramatically faster and cheaper than traditional options. We're building the largest decentralized network of America’s empty truck space - a transparent infrastructure layer any shipper, broker, or carrier can plug into. For shippers, this means freight costs that are up to 50% lower than traditional LTL (shipments from 1 to 12 pallets), along with faster delivery windows because freight moves directly from dock to dock without the slow handoffs, warehouses, or cross-docking infrastructure that LTL depends on. For carriers, Oway’s integration can increase annual revenues by up to 30% with minimal impact on existing schedules. They simply earn more by monetizing space that would have gone unused. Our mission is to transform empty truck space into an asset that strengthens U.S. competitiveness. By lowering the cost of goods sold, we help businesses grow. By improving carrier margins, we make trucking more sustainable. And by digitizing and decentralizing freight, we are laying the foundation for a resilient, transparent logistics layer that can support America’s reindustrialization in the decades ahead. Oway makes freight shipping as simple as ridesharing - click a button, book a truck, and move goods at the true cost of available capacity.

Oway's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Oway, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Oway

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Infrastructure for America's Empty Truck Space

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

We are building an AI-driven freight platform that automatically prices, matches, and sells unused truck space in real time. Our product connects shippers, brokers, and carriers into a decentralized network that makes freight shipping faster and cheaper by filling empty truck space that otherwise goes unused.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and intend to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is based and where we have access to talent familiar with logistics technology and AI. It also connects us closely to venture capital and partners in freight and supply chain industries.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Oway YC application?

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