Pengram YC Application

Winter 2019Inactive

Pengram 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: B2BHuman Resources
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2018

Founders

Will HuangFounder

What Pengram does

Pengram is an indoor navigation application to allow anyone to map a building using just a phone and set up waypoints. Anyone can navigate in the building through Pengram to established waypoints. We primarily focus on helping fire protection, HVAC, and security technicians to locate devices scattered in a building during field work.

Pengram's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pengram

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Indoor navigation through augmented reality on your phone.

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

We built an indoor navigation app that lets anyone map a building using just a phone and set waypoints. Fire protection, HVAC, and security technicians use Pengram to find devices scattered throughout buildings during their field work.

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

We currently live in Santa Clara, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Santa Clara puts us close to the tech ecosystem and potential partners in hardware and enterprise facilities management where our users work.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pengram YC application?

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