Sekilo YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Sekilo went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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: Winter 2022
Industry: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 15
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Chandni ChainaniFounder
Nitish ChellaramCOO & Co-Founder

What Sekilo does

Sekilo is building the AI powered halal protein supply chain for foodservice in Indonesia, starting with poultry. The middle downstream food ecosystem is highly fragmented, with SMEs, F&B chains, industrial buyers, and government kitchens relying on multiple vendors, leading to inconsistent quality, pricing, and fulfillment. Sekilo unifies this through an asset light operating layer that integrates procurement, processing, cold chain, and delivery into a single system, layering AI across negotiation, pricing, inventory, and demand planning to automate workflows and improve margins.

Sekilo's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sekilo, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sekilo

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI powered halal protein supply chain

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

We built a platform that integrates procurement, processing, cold storage, and delivery of halal poultry for foodservice businesses in Indonesia. Our AI tools handle negotiation, pricing, inventory, and demand planning to smooth out the fragmented, inconsistent supply chain that SMEs, F&B chains, and institutional kitchens struggle with.

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

We live and operate in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the company will continue to be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Jakarta is where the problem is biggest and where our team and users are. The supply chain for halal protein here is fragmented and inefficient, so being local lets us build and iterate with the markets that matter.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sekilo YC application?

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