Wheelys Café YC Application

Summer 2015Inactive

Wheelys Café went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2015 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: Summer 2015
Industry: ConsumerFood and Beverage
Team size: 11
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2015

Founders

Per CromwellFounder
Tomas MazettiFounder

What Wheelys Café does

Wheelys is a chain of organic bicycle cafés that enables young people to start their own cafés. Since starting last year, Wheelys has sold over 800 cafés in 75 countries, which means it’s growing faster than any fast food chain. Ever. Wheelys vision is to make it easier for passionate people without money to open their own cafés, shops, and restaurants. Wheelys was hosted at Y Combinator (the accelerator behind Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit) and has been funded by, among others, Othman Laraki (Color Genomics), Paul Buchheit (creator of Gmail), Jared Friedman (founder of Scribd), and Justin Waldron (co-founder of Zynga). “We will break the hegemony of the industrial fast food chains, and pave the way for an organic revolution. Helping us to do this is young hungry eco entrepreneurs from all over the world.” Maria De La Croix, co-founder of Wheelys

Wheelys Café's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Wheelys Café, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Wheelys Café

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Worlds smallest and friendliest bike-powered café franchise

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

We make and sell an organic bicycle café franchise system. Our product is a physical bike-powered café setup that anyone can buy to start their own café without significant capital. We provide the design, branding, and support so passionate young entrepreneurs can open cafés worldwide.

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

We live in Stockholm, Sweden. The company would be based in Stockholm after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Stockholm is where we designed and built our first cafés, and where our initial team is located. It also gives us access to a market that values organic and green products, which fits our brand.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Wheelys Café YC application?

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