ZeroStorefront YC Application

Winter 2019Acquired

ZeroStorefront went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2019
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 7
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2018

Founders

Collin WallaceFounder/CEO
Ashutosh JoshiFounder

What ZeroStorefront does

We connect applications to drive more orders and better customer experiences for restaurants. The typical restaurant now uses more than two dozen different applications to run their business. Specifically, we connect, warehouse and route the data to improve analytics, marketing, operations and finance. Our customers include brands like Frank Pepe’s, Halal Guys, Wings Over and more.

ZeroStorefront's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

ZeroStorefront, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

ZeroStorefront

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

#1 Data platform for restaurants

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

We built a data platform that connects all the different applications restaurants use, warehouses their data, and routes it to improve analytics, marketing, operations, and finance. Our product helps restaurants get more orders and deliver better customer experiences by unifying and making sense of their fragmented data.

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

We live in San Mateo, CA, and the company is based here while some of the team works remotely.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Mateo puts us close to the heart of the tech and restaurant markets we serve while allowing flexibility for remote employees. It lets us stay connected to both the restaurant world and developers building complementary software.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real ZeroStorefront YC application?

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