Tajir YC Application

Winter 2020Active

Tajir 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: B2BRetail
Team size: 50
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Babar KhanFounder
Ismail KhanFounder

What Tajir does

In Pakistan, stores struggle to buy inventory. Stores waste hours dealing with dozens of suppliers and wait passively for salesmen to visit their stores. Deliveries are often late, incorrect, or never arrive at all. Stores often learn prices at the point of delivery and cannot compare across different suppliers. Tajir solves this by offering a one-stop shop for all inventory purchasing with low prices, huge selection, and the convenience of 24/7 ordering with next-day delivery. Mom-and-pop stores are the arteries of Pakistan's economy. Through empowering them with world class logistics & information tools, Tajir aims to refactor and simplify Pakistan's retail economy.

Tajir's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Tajir

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The one-stop shop for mom-and-pop stores in Pakistan to buy inventory

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

Tajir is a B2B marketplace where mom-and-pop stores in Pakistan can buy inventory from multiple suppliers through one platform. Stores place orders anytime, compare prices, and get next-day delivery, solving the pain of dealing with dozens of suppliers, late deliveries, and price opacity.

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

We live in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our focus is Pakistani mom-and-pop stores who face these inventory problems locally. Being in Lahore keeps us close to our customers and suppliers - this is where the problem exists and we can move fastest.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Tajir YC application?

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