Spero Foods YC Application

Summer 2018Inactive

Spero Foods went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 batch as a Healthcare 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 2018
Industry: HealthcareIndustrial Bio
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2018

Founders

Phaedra RandolphFounder/Founding CEO

What Spero Foods does

Spero is affordable, clean, sustainable plant-based dairy. With 21 global patent apps and novel process engineering for high throughput low cost plant dairy, Spero recreates staple foods you love, in ways that are good for you and the planet.

Spero Foods's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Spero Foods, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Spero Foods

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Dairy reinvented from plants

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

We make affordable, clean, and sustainable plant-based dairy products using patented process engineering. Our product recreates staple dairy foods with the taste and texture people expect, without animals or added chemicals.

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

We live in Oakland, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Oakland is where we have built our technical expertise and connections to local food tech innovators. Being here keeps us close to suppliers and pilot facilities needed for our process.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Spero Foods YC application?

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