Roame YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Roame went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: ConsumerTravel, Leisure and Tourism
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Tim QinFounder
Zi LiuFounder

What Roame does

Roame is flight search engine design for credit card points and miles. We help travelers redeem their points for dream vacations in seconds rather than days. At Roame, we are on a mission to revolutionize travel and consumer finance. We stand at the intersection of travel tech and fintech.

Roame's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Roame, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Roame

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Flight search engine for credit card points

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

We built Roame, a flight search engine that helps travelers find and redeem flights using their credit card points and miles. It automates and simplifies a process that otherwise takes days of manual research and piecing together complex award charts. Our product takes your points balances and travel preferences and returns redemption options in seconds.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the right mix of talent, access to investors, and proximity to partners in both travel and fintech, which matches where we want to build Roame.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Roame YC application?

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