Zorba YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Zorba 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 Construction
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Or PreissFounder
Kobi MantzurFounder

What Zorba does

Zorba is a real estate sales AI copilot, powered by proprietary vertical data, designed to help sales and customer success teams grow their client base and improve retention. It's used and trusted by both Fortune 500 and mid-market firms. With a multi-layered, LLM-driven engine, we’ve built a proprietary dataset of consolidated real estate entities, delivering real-time insights tailored specifically for the industry. Think Apollo or ZoomInfo, but AI-first and driven by real estate data

Zorba's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Zorba

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI copilot for real-estate sales teams

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

We built Zorba, an AI copilot that helps real estate sales and customer success teams find new clients and improve retention. It uses a proprietary dataset of consolidated real estate entities and a multi-layered LLM-driven engine to deliver real-time insights tailored for the industry. Our product is like Apollo or ZoomInfo but focused exclusively on real estate, offering data and AI assistance that sales teams can't get elsewhere.

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

We live in Saint Petersburg, FL, USA, and Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel. After YC, the company would continue to be based out of these locations.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Both founders are located in these two cities, and we coordinate development and customer engagement across our offices. This setup works well for our current team size and customer base.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Zorba YC application?

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