Smarking

Application YC di Smarking

Winter 2015Acquired

Smarking ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Winter 2015 come azienda B2B. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.

Batch YC
Winter 2015
Settore
B2BAnalytics
Dimensione team
17
Stato
Acquired
Lanciata
2014

Founder

  • Wen Sang
    Wen SangFounder/CEO
  • Maokai Lin
    Maokai LinFounder/CTO

Cosa fa Smarking

Smarking is a group of hyper-driven MIT PhDs, data scientists, engineers, transportation experts, and battle-tested business professionals working to solve the notorious parking problem via a unique enterprise approach. Smarking aims to enable highly efficient urban mobility by digitizing parking spaces and distributing parking inventory dynamically, in order to get the world ready for the connected, shared, and autonomous future. Backed by top VCs like Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures, Smarking has brought its solution to over 2,500 parking locations across North America. For the first time, cities, parking asset owners, and parking operators can make data-driven decisions easily. Smarking also launched the industry’s first fully automatic dynamic pricing engine, producing 40%-400% revenue uplifts for online sales at at parking locations Chicago, NYC, Boston, and many other cities.

Application YC di Smarking, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

Smarking, batch Winter 2015. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

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

Company

Company name

Smarking

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Digitize $655B parking industry

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

We built an enterprise SaaS platform that brings data-driven decision-making to parking operators, asset owners, and cities. Our system digitizes parking inventory, uses dynamic pricing algorithms, and delivers analytics to optimize urban parking revenue and availability.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here with some remote team members.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the core hub for tech talent and investors. Being here lets us access strong engineering resources and be close to early customers and partners in urban environments.

21 risposte in più nell'application completa

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference sono nella versione completa. Crea un account gratuito per aprirla in YC Insights, accanto a ogni altro batch YC.

Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di Smarking?

No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di Smarking (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Smarking si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.

A quale batch YC apparteneva Smarking?

Smarking apparteneva al batch Winter 2015 di Y Combinator.

Chi ha fondato Smarking?

Smarking è stato fondato da Wen Sang, Maokai Lin.

Cosa fa Smarking?

Digitize $655B parking industry

Come leggo la ricostruzione completa della application?

Crea un account Round Funded gratuito. La versione completa di 26 risposte della application di Smarking, e di ogni altro batch YC, è in YC Insights.

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