Roomstorm YC Application

Summer 2014Active

Roomstorm went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2014 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 2014
Industry: ConsumerTravel, Leisure and Tourism
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2014

Founders

Maksim IzmaylovFounder

What Roomstorm does

Roomstorm has developed the airline industry's first ever fully automated platform for providing hotel accommodations to distressed passengers during flight disruptions. This platform gives airlines the opportunity to directly connect to hotel inventory all over the world, or to give their teams an advanced web portal for the rapid processing of their passengers.

Roomstorm's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Roomstorm, Summer 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Roomstorm

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Real time B2B hotel room marketplace

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

We built a platform that allows airlines to automatically book hotel rooms for passengers disrupted by flight delays and cancellations. Airlines can access global hotel inventory directly or use our web portal to handle accommodation requests quickly. This cuts manual work, speeds up passenger rebooking, and integrates hotel options into airline operations in real-time.

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

We all live and work in Redwood City, CA, and after YC the company would continue to be based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live in Redwood City and all founders are local. Staying here keeps the team close and lets us operate where the travel industry and tech meet. Redwood City offers proximity to partners and potential customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Roomstorm YC application?

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