Sendo YC Application

Winter 2022Inactive

Sendo 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 1
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2022

Founders

Nick RubinFounder
Daniel LewisFounder

What Sendo does

We're making it easy, cheap and fun for startups to build on SMS again. Sendo is the most developer-friendly SMS API, with great documentation, a fast dashboard, helpful monitoring features, easier 10DLC compliance and much more. Save 40%+ compared to Twilio and other options, and get started sending messages in 1-2 days instead of waiting weeks for your 10DLC campaigns to get approved.

Sendo's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sendo

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The best SMS/RCS API for startups

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

We built an SMS and RCS messaging API optimized for startups. Our API makes it easy to send SMS with features like a faster onboarding dashboard, monitoring tools, and simpler 10DLC compliance. Startups get a lower-cost, developer-friendly alternative to bigger players like Twilio, with a setup that reduces approval times from weeks to a couple of days.

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

We live in New York, NY, with a remote team. After YC, we would remain based in New York but continue supporting remote work.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where we started Sendo and where we built the product. We chose it because of the access to engineering talent and the startup ecosystem here. Remote work keeps us flexible, so the location suits us well.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sendo YC application?

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