Trella YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Trella went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 50
Status: Active
Launched: 2019

Founders

Omar HagrassFounder
Ali El AtrashFounder
Pierre SaadFounder

What Trella does

Trella is a technology platform that connects shippers to carriers. Trella empowers drivers, improves their efficiency, boosts their earnings and utilization as well as provide job opportunities. Trella also works to reduce costs for shippers, introduce a transparent pricing structure, provide them with a more reliable source of carriers while allowing them to track their shipments in real-time as well as report key insights on their transportation trends and performance.

Trella's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Trella

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Platform connecting shippers to carriers

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

We built a platform that connects shippers - businesses that need freight moved - to carriers who have trucks available. Our product lets shippers find reliable carriers, get transparent pricing, and track shipments in real time. For carriers, especially drivers, it improves efficiency, increases their earnings by boosting utilization, and opens up more consistent job opportunities.

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

We live and operate in Cairo, Egypt, and Plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

The freight and logistics market in Egypt has inefficiencies that we understand from firsthand experience. Being here lets us build direct relationships with local shippers and carriers and solve problems no one else in the region is focusing on.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Trella YC application?

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