Soco YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Soco went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: ConsumerApparel and Cosmetics
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Omar ThanawallaFounder

What Soco does

Soco: You talk to it, it brings you hundreds of products.

Soco's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Soco, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Soco

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Visual AI shopping

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

We built an AI-powered shopping assistant that lets you talk naturally to find hundreds of products matching your style and needs. Instead of browsing endless listings, users chat with Soco to get personalized apparel and cosmetics options quickly.

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

We live in New York, NY and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where our target customers and fashion retailers are concentrated. Being on the ground here helps us stay close to our users and trends in apparel and cosmetics.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Soco YC application?

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