Smarking YC 申请

Winter 2015Acquired

Smarking 在 Winter 2015 批次的 Y Combinator 中作为一家 B2B 公司进行过。以下是：公司做什么、谁创立了它，以及其 YC 申请，按照真实 YC 表格逐题重建。

YC 批次: Winter 2015
行业: B2BAnalytics
团队规模: 17
状态: Acquired
已发布: 2014

创始人

Wen SangFounder/CEO
Maokai LinFounder/CTO

Smarking 做什么

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.

Smarking 的 YC 申请，重建版

Y Combinator 申请

Smarking，Winter 2015 期。来自公开数据的真实申请问题解答。

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 更多回答在完整申请中

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference 包含在完整版中。创建免费账户即可在 YC Insights 中打开，紧邻每个其他 YC 批次。

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常见问题解答

这是 Smarking 的真实 YC 申请吗？

不是。Y Combinator 对提交的申请保密。这是重建版：使用 Smarking 的公开数据（发布笔记、创始人背景、产品描述）回答真实的 YC 表格问题。它展示了像 Smarking 这样的公司会如何向 YC 自我介绍，而不是他们提交的文本。

Smarking 是哪个 YC 批次的？

Smarking 是 Y Combinator Winter 2015 批次的成员。

谁创立了 Smarking？

Smarking 由 Wen Sang, Maokai Lin 创立。

Smarking 做什么？