Poka Labs YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Poka Labs went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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: Summer 2024
Industry: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Andrew BassFounder
Malay ShahFounder

What Poka Labs does

Poka Labs builds an AI platform to help sales reps at chemical manufacturers respond to requests from customers and win more business. Our agents understand each companies product catalog, customer purchase behaviors, and tribal knowledge in order to price, quote, and win the business. Malay and Andrew met while pursuing at Harvard Business School and now are building for companies ranging from a few million in sales per year to billions.

Poka Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Poka Labs, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Poka Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Helping industrial manufacturers win deals fast, at the right price.

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

We built an AI platform that helps sales reps at chemical manufacturers respond quickly and accurately to customer requests. Our agents know each company's product catalog, customer purchase patterns, and tribal knowledge to price and quote deals competitively and win more business.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in San Francisco because it's where the founders live and where we have access to early users and talent familiar with SaaS and AI for supply chain problems.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Poka Labs YC application?

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