Trava YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Trava went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 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: Winter 2025
Industry: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 1
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Pushkar LankaFounder

What Trava does

Trava is building AI agents for global trade compliance. Importers lose billions each year to duty overpayments and filing errors. Trava audits customs entries and automates classification to help importers protect margins and stay compliant at scale.

Trava's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Trava, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Trava

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI agents for global trade compliance

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

We are building AI agents that audit customs import declarations and automate product classification to reduce duty overpayments and filing errors. Our product helps importers protect their margins and stay compliant at scale.

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

I live in San Francisco, and the company will be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the best access to the talent, investors, and logistics industry contacts we need to build and grow Trava.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Trava YC application?

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