Terminal YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Terminal went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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: Summer 2023
Industry: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 13
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Raghav MidhaFounder
Connor GilesFounder

What Terminal does

Terminal is Plaid for telematics data in commercial trucking. Companies building next generation insurance products, financial services and fleet software for trucking use our Universal API to access GPS data, speeding data and vehicle stats. Raghav (CEO) and Connor (CTO) led product and engineering at a series b-funded neobank where they spent 2.5 years integrating middleware APIs like Plaid & Stripe. Before that, Connor spent 3 years building software for his family-owned logistics company which was acquired by a private equity firm. Raghav’s family is in fleet operations and owns an HVAC company in San Francisco where they operate a fleet of 13 commercial vehicles.

Terminal's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Terminal, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Terminal

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Plaid for telematics data in trucking

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

We built a Universal API that lets companies like insurers, financial services, and fleet software access telematics data from commercial trucks. It pulls GPS, speeding, and vehicle stats from multiple telematics providers and normalizes it into one structure.

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

We live in Toronto, ON, Canada and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Toronto is where we live and work. Our network and first customers are here. It's a good base because both founders have deep roots in logistics and fintech from the region.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Terminal YC application?

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