Purple Plate YC Application

Summer 2018Inactive

Purple Plate went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 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 2018
Industry: ConsumerFood and Beverage
Team size: 45
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2018

Founders

Chen-Chen HuoFounder
Antony BelloFounder

What Purple Plate does

We're a food delivery logistics and culinary company that empowers restaurants to tap into the explosive world of food delivery. We build delivery-native, multi-restaurant virtual kitchens that allow our restaurant partners to expand their delivery footprint to reach new customers. Our fully staffed kitchens handle cooking, delivery, and fulfillment on behalf of restaurant partners so they can focus on what they do best.

Purple Plate's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Purple Plate, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Purple Plate

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

We license brands for delivery and pick-up

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

We build delivery-native, multi-restaurant virtual kitchens that handle cooking, fulfillment, and delivery for our restaurant partners. This lets restaurants expand their delivery footprint without investing in infrastructure or logistics themselves.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and would base the company there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team and early partners are located. It has a large market for food delivery and access to talent needed to build and scale our delivery and kitchen operations.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Purple Plate YC application?

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