pap! YC Application

Summer 2024Active

pap! went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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: Summer 2024
Industry: Consumer
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Kamal NahasCo-Founder, CEO
Anthony RassiCo-Founder, COO
Weijie WangFounder

What pap! does

Consumers miss out on $70B+ every year because they're busy and unaware, and that money is sitting in their email inbox. So, we automated reading email receipts and claiming the money they're entitled to, offering a service to which you can sign up once, do (literally) nothing, and earn $. Where is this money coming from? - Retailers: When the price of clothes or furniture you've already bought drops, you're entitled to a refund for the difference - Airlines: When a flight you've booked gets delayed or canceled, you're entitled to a cash compensation. - Enterprises: When a class-action lawsuit is filed against a company you engage with, you're entitled to money. - And many more, that even the government holds some of your unclaimed funds. Today, the dream of one service that automatically claims the money you deserve when you shop, fly,... and live is (finally) possible. We started with automating refunds in the shopping industry and have secured $8,000 in refunds to our users, growing 233% MoM. With AI, we've been able to repurpose that same automation to tackle refunds in the flight industry and the class-action lawsuit landscape. Why us? (1) We're obsessed with reclaiming what's rightfully yours: Kamal and Anthony grew up in Lebanon, where people's money was unfairly taken away. (2) Weijie was the lead infra engineer for Wish's recommendation system, the feature that fueled their IPO. Our combined experience includes Apple, Addepar, Bolt, Wish, and StackAdapt. And we're all working towards one goal: move those billions of dollars where they belong.

pap!'s YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

pap!

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Agents that earn consumers dollars automatically.

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

We built an AI-powered service that reads your email receipts to automatically claim money you're entitled to from retailers, airlines, lawsuits, and more. Users sign up once and then earn refunds or cash compensations without having to do anything else. We started with retail price-drop refunds and have expanded to flight delays and class-action settlements.

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

We currently live in Berkeley, CA, and plan to stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're in Berkeley because we're a small team with strong ties here, and it lets us focus on building instead of moving. YC's remote-friendly approach means we can keep building in place while getting their support.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real pap! YC application?

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