Wifi Dabba, Inc. YC Application
Wifi Dabba, Inc. went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2017 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 2017
- Industry
- Consumer
- Team size
- 21
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2016
Founders
Karam LakshmanFounder
Shubhendu SharmaFounder
What Wifi Dabba, Inc. does
We enable humans & machines with internet connectivity at a price that they can afford. The inspiration for Wifi Dabba came from the founders working together for the last decade in the mobile application industry and realising the biggest reason for user churn being access to cheap and affordable internet access. From having worked on ground onboarding users and facing poor connectivity issues all the time, we took it on ourselves to fix the internet access problem for the common citizen. At Wifi Dabba (YC W17), we are building a low cost, scalable & distributed Wi-Fi infrastructure to connect next billion users online. We do this by deploying a grid of lasers (Free Space Optics) over the cities & town and bring cheap and fast internet for everyone. We enable anyone to buy 1 gig of data access at a time at a price they can afford. Sachetization of internet access is the foundation to rebuilding internet for all. We do this by leveraging crypto and blockchain to truly make internet infrastructure ownership distributed - our vision is to be connectivity layer for the Web3 world.
Wifi Dabba, Inc.'s YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Wifi Dabba, Inc., Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Wifi Dabba, Inc.
Decentralised broadband connectivity
We are building a grid of Free Space Optics lasers that create a distributed Wi-Fi network across cities and towns. Our product lets anyone buy small amounts of data they can afford to connect to fast, cheap internet. We use blockchain to distribute network ownership and enable a new connectivity layer for Web3.
We live in Bengaluru, KA, India, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.
Bengaluru has the technical talent and infrastructure we need. It's where we and our users are, and where we can deploy our hardware and network effectively.
21 more answers in the full application
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Is this the real Wifi Dabba, Inc. YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Wifi Dabba, Inc.'s public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Wifi Dabba, Inc. would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Wifi Dabba, Inc. in?
Wifi Dabba, Inc. was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2017 batch.
Who founded Wifi Dabba, Inc.?
Wifi Dabba, Inc. was founded by Karam Lakshman, Shubhendu Sharma.
What does Wifi Dabba, Inc. do?
Decentralised broadband connectivity.
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