Portal Entryways YC Application

Winter 2019Inactive

Portal Entryways 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: B2BOffice Management
Team size: 4
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2018

Founders

Josh HorneFounder
Sam LewFounder

Portal Entryways's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Portal Entryways

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Batteryless sensors for disabled-accessible door monitoring

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

We build batteryless IoT sensors that upgrade disabled-accessible office doors to monitor usage and compliance without maintenance hassles. Our product fits on existing door hardware and communicates data to office managers to improve safety and accessibility.

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

We live in Provo, UT and remote locations. After YC, we would base the company primarily in Provo, keeping a distributed team setup.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Provo offers access to hardware talent and affordable operations while remote work keeps us flexible. It fits our lifestyle and lets us build hardware efficiently.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Portal Entryways YC application?

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