Pakible YC Application

Winter 2015Inactive

Pakible went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 3
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2014

Founders

Nick CarsonFounder/CEO
Phillip AkhzarFounder

What Pakible does

2000+ customers use Pakible including Samsung, Reddit, Soylent, and the Golden State Warriors. We make it insanely easy to design, price, and manufacture custom product packaging. Leveraging in house software to automate operations, an incredibly user-friendly customer-facing interface, plus amazing people + vendors. Pakible is an unbeatable experience and price compared to brokers or direct manufacturers. Packaging is the most slept-on market in the world, a $500B market just domestically representing over 2% of US GDP. We're a startup of < 10 people. Come build something special with us, and have a huge role in doing so.

Pakible's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pakible

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Easy custom packaging design and manufacturing

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

We built a platform that lets companies design custom product packaging, get instant pricing, and manufacture it without the usual headaches. Our software automates quoting and operations, making it faster and cheaper than working through brokers or directly with manufacturers.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and the company is based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco puts us close to both tech companies and packaging vendors. It's where our customers and partners are.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pakible YC application?

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