Recurrency YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Recurrency went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 50
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Sam OshayFounder

What Recurrency does

Recurrency is reversing enterprise resource planning (ERP) stagnation by building the industry-standard ERP automation platform: blazingly fast and complete with powerful automation tools like intelligent sales recommendations, dynamic pricing, and demand forecasting. Despite distribution being a multi-trillion dollar industry, the legacy ERP systems that exist to help businesses manage their purchasing, inventory, sales, order processing, and accounting are decades behind. For the most part, ERP systems are painfully slow, difficult to use, and soul-crushingly manual. Using Recurrency can boost a distributor’s revenue and profit margins, while reducing waste and saving time. Most importantly, Recurrency is fully integrated with the customer’s legacy system, so deploying Recurrency in production can be done in as little as one day.

Recurrency's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Recurrency

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automated ERP for distributors

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

We build an ERP automation platform for distributors that works on top of their legacy systems. Our product uses intelligent sales recommendations, dynamic pricing, and demand forecasting to handle purchasing, inventory, sales, order processing, and accounting faster and with less manual work. It integrates with existing ERP systems and can be deployed in as little as one day, increasing revenue and reducing waste.

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

We live in San Francisco and Los Angeles now, and the company would remain based in California after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Both of us live in the California area, and our core customers - distributors - are mostly US-based. Being in San Francisco and LA lets us be close to tech talent and some key distributor customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Recurrency YC application?

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