Vobi YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Vobi went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 batch as a Real Estate and Construction 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 2022
Industry: Real Estate and ConstructionConstruction
Team size: 45
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Ythalo SilvaFounder
Murillo FreitasCTO & Co-Founder
Guilherme GuerraFounder
Fábio WittFounder

What Vobi does

Vobi is a project management platform for small construction businesses, like home remodeling companies, contractors, and architects. We help them save up to 50% of their time spent on manual work, mainly on the procurement and estimation processes, so they have more time to focus on their core activities. Through Vobi, they can manage projects from start to finish, collaborate with their customers, plan, quote, and make purchases or payments to suppliers, all in one place. No more spreadsheets and papers!

Vobi's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Vobi, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Vobi

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Project management for construction SMBs in Latam

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

We built a project management platform for small construction businesses like contractors, home remodelers, and architects. It centralizes planning, quoting, procurement, and payments so they ditch spreadsheets and paperwork. The focus is saving them up to half the time they spend on manual estimations and buying, letting them focus on actual construction work.

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

We live in São Paulo, Brazil, and after YC the company will remain based here with a remote team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

São Paulo is where our main team is and most of our early customers are. Latam construction SMBs have similar pain points here, so it's the best place to build and scale initially.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Vobi YC application?

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