Inscrição YC de Smarking

Winter 2015Acquired

Smarking passou pela Y Combinator no batch Winter 2015 como uma empresa B2B. Abaixo: o que a empresa faz, quem a fundou e sua inscrição para a YC, reconstruída pergunta por pergunta no formulário real da YC.

Batch YC: Winter 2015
Indústria: B2BAnalytics
Tamanho da equipe: 17
Status: Acquired
Lançada: 2014

Fundadores

Wen SangFounder/CEO
Maokai LinFounder/CTO

O que Smarking faz

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.

Inscrição YC de Smarking, reconstruída

Inscrição Y Combinator

Smarking, lote Winter 2015. As verdadeiras perguntas do formulário, respondidas com dados públicos.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
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 respostas a mais na inscrição completa

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Perguntas Frequentes

Esta é a inscrição real da YC de Smarking?

Não. A Y Combinator mantém as inscrições submetidas em privado. Esta é uma reconstrução: as perguntas reais do formulário da YC, respondidas a partir dos dados públicos de Smarking (notas de lançamento, históricos de fundadores, descrição do produto). Mostra como uma empresa como Smarking se apresentaria à YC, não o texto que eles submeteram.

Em qual batch da YC Smarking esteve?

Smarking fez parte do batch Winter 2015 da Y Combinator.

Quem fundou o Smarking?

O Smarking foi fundado por Wen Sang, Maokai Lin.

O que o Smarking faz?

Digitize $655B parking industry

Como eu leio o application completo reconstruído?

Crie uma conta gratuita no Round Funded. A versão completa de 26 respostas do application do Smarking, e de todos os outros lotes do YC, está no YC Insights.