Rentobo YC Application

Summer 2011Inactive

Rentobo went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2011 batch as a Real Estate and Construction 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 2011
Industry: Real Estate and ConstructionHousing and Real Estate
Team size: 11
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Nikhil AbrahamFounder
Shaun DavisFounder/Software Engineer
Matt KopkoFounder
James ShkolnikFounder

What Rentobo does

Rentobo is a new tool built for landlords, managers, and agents of all sizes to simplify the process of finding and signing a new tenant for your rental property. Enter your listing details once at Rentobo and we will help you promote your property across major rental search sites. Rentobo organizes rental applications, credit scores, and social networks into an easy to use tenant profile - everything you need to make a decision. Tenants use Rentobo to sign their lease and submit their deposit electronically. Combined with online applications you can stop pushing paper. For more information, please visit us at:

Rentobo's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Rentobo, Summer 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Rentobo

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The easiest way to find a tenant

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

We built Rentobo to help landlords, property managers, and agents manage listings and tenant applications in one place. Users enter a listing once and we push it to all the major rental search sites. We also organize applications, credit data, social profiles, and let tenants sign leases and send deposits online, so landlords don't have to handle paper or juggle multiple sites.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has a dense market of landlords and property managers, which makes it easier to engage early users and iterate quickly. It's also where we live and work already.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Rentobo YC application?

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