SEND YC Application

Winter 2020Active

SEND went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2020
Industry: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 9
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Kingsley OtiFounder
Larry OtiFounder

What SEND does

SEND is a digital freight forwarder and customs broker for Africa. We manage the entire process of shipping cargo by air or by sea, including the documentation, customs process, delivery to the warehouse and trade financing.

SEND's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

SEND, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

SEND

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Flexport for Africa - Digital freight forwarder

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

We built a digital freight forwarding and customs brokerage platform that manages cargo shipments by air and sea into Africa. Our product handles documentation, customs clearance, delivery to warehouse, and trade financing, streamlining a process that's traditionally complex and manual for African traders and importers.

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

We live and work in Lagos, Nigeria. After YC, we would base the company in Lagos as well since that is where the shipping challenges are and where our customers and partners operate.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our location choice is because the problems we solve are tied to African supply chains and customs, which require hands-on local knowledge and presence. Lagos is the trade hub of West Africa and the best place to build and iterate on our digital freight forwarding product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real SEND YC application?

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