Perfekto YC Application

Summer 2021Inactive

Perfekto went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: ConsumerFood and Beverage
Team size: 33
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Anahí SosaFounder
Jan HeinvirtaFounder

What Perfekto does

Over 1/3 of food is being thrown away and in Latin America 72% of it prior to the consumer stage. Mainly due to physical imperfections or surplus production, despite being fresh and edible. Perfekto offers a grocery subscription box with imperfect and surplus food, home-delivered. Thereby, consumers save time and money while reducing food waste. The founders are experienced leaders scaling startups & grocery operations. Anahí previously led the Uber Grocery initiative for Latam. Jan scaled Swiss FinTech Sonect to pre-Series B and to Mexico. Juan led Walmart's eCommerce logistics and operations in Mexico. By the end of 2022, Perfekto had: 🌱 rescued over 500,000kgs of food from being wasted 🚚 delivered over 60,000 orders 📈 grown 1,120% year-over-year 🥖 gone beyond just produce and now help rescue items like bread or packaged goods from companies like Heartbest Foods, Bové, Tuny - with major multinationals in the pipeline 💚 become a beloved brand with an NPS of 70 🫂 built an online community of over 20,000 people and several thousand homes receiving Perfekto boxes

Perfekto's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Perfekto, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Perfekto

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Grocery subscription service against food waste

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

We deliver weekly grocery subscription boxes filled with imperfect or surplus food that would otherwise go to waste in Latin America. Our customers get fresh produce, bread, and packaged goods at lower prices, saving time and money while reducing waste.

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

We live and operate in Mexico City, and we plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Mexico City is where the food waste problem is urgent and where we have deep local knowledge, supplier connections, and customer demand. Being based here lets us build the operations and partnerships we need to scale in Latam.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Perfekto YC application?

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