TaxProper YC Application

Summer 2019Acquired

TaxProper went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 batch as a Real Estate and Construction 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 2019
Industry: Real Estate and Construction
Team size: 8
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2019

Founders

Thomas DowlingCo-founder
Geoff SegalCo-Founder

What TaxProper does

TaxProper is an enterprise SaaS solution that acquires real-time property tax data, encodes local tax rules, and contains all of the operational workflows associated with property tax management. Our core products automate property tax payments, forecast future property tax liability, and help large real estate operators manage their property tax appeals.

TaxProper's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

TaxProper, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

TaxProper

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Manage property taxes for large real estate owners

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

We make TaxProper, an enterprise SaaS that automates property tax management for large real estate owners. It collects real-time tax data, encodes local tax rules, automates payments, forecasts tax liabilities, and streamlines appeal workflows.

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

We're based in Chicago, IL, and plan to stay there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Chicago is where we built industry relationships and understand the local real estate tax ecosystem deeply. Staying here keeps us connected to customers and tax jurisdictions critical to our product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real TaxProper YC application?

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