Preki YC Application

Winter 2021Acquired

Preki went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2B
Team size: 15
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2021

Founders

Alex HakimFounder
Tahi HakimFounder
David NarvaezFounder

What Preki does

Preki creates easy to use e-commerce solutions for local businesses in LatAm, you can think of us as Shopify for LatAm. Setting up an online business in LatAm is expensive, hard to learn and time consuming. With us, all businesses have to do is follow an onboarding process and add products - no code or design involved. This process takes less than 30 seconds and users can start selling immediately.

Preki's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Preki, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Preki

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Shopify for LatAm

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

Preki is a simple e-commerce platform focused on local businesses in Latin America. Users follow an onboarding flow, add their products without coding or design, and start selling online in under 30 seconds.

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

We live and operate in Bogotá, Colombia and plan to base the company there after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

The e-commerce challenges we solve, like expensive setup and complexity, are specific to LatAm markets, so being based here keeps us close to our users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Preki YC application?

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