PowerUs YC Application

Summer 2020Active

PowerUs went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: ConsumerJob and Career Services
Team size: 80
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Julian LindingerFounder
Konrad GeigerFounder

What PowerUs does

PowerUs helps skilled blue-collar workers like electricians and mechanics to find better full-time jobs. With only 10 minutes of effort, our users get job offers that pay them up to 50% more than they are making today.

PowerUs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

PowerUs, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

PowerUs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

LinkedIn for skilled blue-collar workers

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

We built a platform that helps electricians, mechanics, and other skilled blue-collar workers find full-time jobs that pay up to 50% more. Our product matches workers with job offers after about 10 minutes of setup, cutting through the traditional recruiting noise for these roles.

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

We are based in Berlin, Germany, and the company will stay based in Berlin after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Berlin is where we live and where the skilled blue-collar workforce we serve is active. Staying here keeps us close to our users and local employers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real PowerUs YC application?

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