Taobotics YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Taobotics went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 batch as a Industrials 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 2019
Industry: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Team size: 11
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Wenke MaFounder
Xiangru (Mark) NieCo-Founder
Zhikang WangFounder
Yong ZhaoFounder

Taobotics's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Taobotics, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Taobotics

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Autonomous robots for retails.

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

We build autonomous robots that retail stores use to scan shelves and inventory automatically. Our robots navigate stores on their own, detect missing or misplaced products, and help retailers keep accurate stock data without manual effort.

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

We all live in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Shenzhen is a global hub for hardware manufacturing and robotics innovation. Being here lets us rapidly prototype and deploy our robots close to supply chain partners and early retail customers.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

See full application

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Taobotics YC application?

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