Tilt YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Tilt 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: Consumer
Team size: 12
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Daksh Shah
Deepak VS
Sudhir Metaliya
Rachit Parikh

What Tilt does

You can buy or share our bicycles and e-bikes for health, fitness, and mobility. Today, our bikes can be found in hundreds of communities across Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi NCR and Pune.

Tilt's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Tilt

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Bringing the joy of cycling to millions of Indians

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

We build bicycles and e-bikes designed for health, fitness, and mobility. Our products can be bought or shared through community programs in major Indian cities. We focus on making cycling accessible and enjoyable in urban India where last-mile mobility and fitness are growing needs.

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

We live in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, and the company will remain based there after YC, operating with a partly remote team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Bengaluru is where our engineering and product teams are based and where our initial users and communities are located. Staying here keeps us close to our customers and manufacturing partners.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Tilt YC application?

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