Toymail YC Application

Winter 2016Inactive

Toymail went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2016 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 2016
Industry: ConsumerConsumer Electronics
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2015

Founders

Gauri NandaFounder

What Toymail does

The only kid-friendly WIFI toy messenger. Use our free app to message our toys from your phone & your child can reply right back! After securing funding from both Amazon and Verizon and getting into Y Combinator, Toymail has just launched the "Talkies" - a quirky new line of plush toys that let friends and family exchange messages with kids for two-way voice talk. With Toymail's Talkies kids can: • Send messages to grownup's phones with the free Toymail app • Send messages directly to other friend's Talkies. • Play for hours on or offline with our on-board voice filtering software

Toymail's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Toymail, Winter 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Toymail

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Connected toys with two-way voice messaging for kids

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

We make Toymail Talkies - plush toys connected to Wi-Fi that let kids send and receive voice messages. Parents and friends use a free app to talk to the toys, and kids can reply or message other Talkies. Our software works both online and offline with voice filtering to keep it kid-friendly.

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

We live in Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY. After YC, the company would be based in whichever city best supports our growth, likely continuing remote collaboration between those locations.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose these locations because they allow us to be close to partners, early users, and potential investors, and reflect where the founders are based.

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 Toymail YC application?

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