Paneau YC Application

Winter 2020Inactive

Paneau went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 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 2020
Industry: ConsumerContent
Team size: 7
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2020

Founders

Alec FongFounder
Nader KhalilFounder

What Paneau does

Paneau puts tablets inside Uber/Lyfts for businesses to advertise directly to the riders. Riders can interact and do anything from make purchases to re-route the car.

Paneau's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Paneau, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Paneau

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Tablets inside Uber/Lyfts advertising to riders

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

We make tablets that go inside Uber and Lyft vehicles. These show ads directly to the rider and allow them to interact - they can make purchases or even re-route the ride through the tablet. It's like a smart, interactive window for brands inside rideshares.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, and the company is based here now. We'll stay here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the center of rideshare, tech, and advertising, so it's the obvious place to build a business that integrates tablets inside rideshare cars and connects advertisers to riders.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Paneau YC application?

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