Taste YC Application

Winter 2021Inactive

Taste went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2021
Industry: ConsumerFood and Beverage
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Jeff ChenFounder
Daryl SewFounder

What Taste does

Taste is an online marketplace where you can order ready-to-eat dinners from great restaurants, shipped nationwide. The next time you want to have a nice dinner at home, instead of cooking for hours or getting low quality take out, you can order a nice multi-course dinner from Taste to enjoy with friends or loved ones.

Taste's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Taste, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Taste

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Online marketplace for dinners shipped nationwide

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

We built Taste to connect people who want quality, multi-course dinners at home with great restaurants that can ship ready-to-eat meals nationwide. Instead of cooking for hours or settling for mediocre takeout, users order complete dinners delivered fresh and ready to enjoy.

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

We live in New York, NY, and would base the company in New York after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live in New York where many of the restaurants we work with are located and where our initial customers are. Staying here keeps us close to partners and logistics operations.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Taste YC application?

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