Donkey

Candidature YC de Donkey

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

Donkey a été sélectionné par Y Combinator dans le cadre du batch Summer 2026 en tant qu'entreprise B2B. Ci-dessous : ce que fait l'entreprise, qui l'a fondée, et sa candidature à YC, reconstruite question par question dans le vrai formulaire YC.

Batch YC
Summer 2026
Secteur d'activité
B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Lieu
San Francisco
Taille de l'équipe
5
Statut
Active
Lancé
2026

Fondateurs

  • Benjamin Martindale
    Benjamin MartindaleFounder/CEO
  • Minghao Tan
    Minghao TanFounder/CTO

Ce que fait Donkey

Donkey is the AI-native trading company. Upload a buying list and we land the whole container at one locked, delivered price, tariffs included. You buy from Donkey: one contract, one company responsible for everything between the factory floor and your door. Our own people check the cartons before the factory gets paid, and the balance is due when the goods are accepted at your dock. Small businesses buy imports through three or four middlemen, each adding 15 to 30 points, because none of them can fill a container on their own. Big enough to buy pallets, never big enough to buy the box. Quotes float with freight, FX and tariffs and live 15 to 30 days. A trading company is rooms of people on the phone with factories, forwarders and brokers. Donkey runs that as one engine. It finds the real factory behind the customs record, stacks duty line by line, packs the container on weight and cube, and returns one number that holds from signature. Next comes the shared container: small buyers fill one box together at container prices, and every container earns better factory terms for the next one. Team in San Francisco and Wuhan, English and Mandarin. If your business buys pallets of anything imported, send us your buying list.

Candidature YC de Donkey, reconstruite

Candidature Y Combinator

Donkey, promotion Summer 2026. Les vraies questions de candidature, répondues à partir de données publiques.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Donkey

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-native trading: container price, delivered, one quote.

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

We built Donkey to let businesses buy imported goods at true factory prices, delivered with one locked-in quote. You upload a buying list and Donkey handles everything: factory sourcing, contracts, inspection, shipping, tariffs, all baked into one price that doesn't change. You only deal with us, not a chain of brokers and middlemen. We're automating what trading companies do manually: finding the real source, packing containers efficiently, and making one accountable engine between the factory and your dock.

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

We are based in San Francisco, with team members in Wuhan. After YC, the company will stay based in San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

The supply chain backbone runs from China to the US, so the team splits across San Francisco and Wuhan. Our buyers are largely in the US, and YC's network is in SF, so that's our main base.

21 réponses supplémentaires dans la candidature complète

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Questions fréquemment posées

Est-ce la vraie candidature YC de Donkey ?

Non. Y Combinator garde les candidatures soumises privées. Ceci est une reconstruction : les vraies questions du formulaire YC, répondues à partir des données publiques de Donkey (notes de lancement, parcours des fondateurs, description du produit). Cela montre comment une entreprise comme Donkey se présenterait à YC, pas le texte qu'ils ont soumis.

À quel batch YC Donkey appartenait-il ?

Donkey faisait partie du batch Summer 2026 de Y Combinator.

Qui a fondé Donkey ?

Donkey a été fondé par Benjamin Martindale, Minghao Tan.

Que fait Donkey ?

The AI-native trading company: factory prices, delivered, one number

Comment lire la candidature complète reconstruite ?

Créez un compte Round Funded gratuit. La version complète de la candidature de Donkey en 26 réponses, et de chaque autre promotion YC, se trouve dans YC Insights.

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