AccessOwl YC Application

Summer 2022Active

AccessOwl went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 batch as a B2B 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: Summer 2022
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 15
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Philip EllerFounder
Mathias NestlerFounder

What AccessOwl does

AccessOwl automates employee SaaS account provisioning and permissioning for any tool. IT teams from companies like Zeplin and Sary save 30 minutes on every request. Access management used to be an enterprise problem. With work from home, exploding SaaS usage and the need for SOC2 certifications startups have the same problems as enterprises. Mathias and Philip have built several startups and teams before and experienced the same problems around access management over and over again. Philip was the CEO and Co-Founder of blik, an award winning IoT solution that was used by Volkswagen and BMW. Mathias built the leading private payment infrastructure provider in Germany as well as the first digital car insurance as Co-Founder and CTO. Based on these experiences we decided to build a solution we wish we could have used when building our former companies. AccessOwl can be deployed within minutes instead of weeks by simply installing a Slack application. We save companies that use AccessOwl 30 minutes for every access request, on- and offboarding.

AccessOwl's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

AccessOwl, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

AccessOwl

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Managing your Employees' Access to SaaS

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

We built AccessOwl to automate employee SaaS account provisioning and permissions for any tool. IT teams install our Slack app and can handle access requests in minutes instead of weeks, saving about 30 minutes per request for onboarding and offboarding. It addresses the growing SaaS access management problems startups face, especially with remote work and compliance needs like SOC2.

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

We live in Berlin, Germany and AccessOwl is based here and remote as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Berlin is where we live and have built our teams before. We run AccessOwl from here and rely on remote work too, matching where our users and team members are.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real AccessOwl YC application?

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