Aglide YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Aglide went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2B
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Patrick D. McGuckianFounder
Oliver ColebourneFounder

What Aglide does

Our mission is to secure access to every enterprise application. Aglide SSO lets security and IT teams connect non-standard and legacy apps - from banking portals to social media logins - directly to their existing identity provider (Okta, Entra, OneLogin, Ping, etc.), with no need for app-side integration. Once connected, these apps behave like any other IdP-managed service: policies like MFA, Conditional Access, RBAC, and audit logging just work, and end users access them through SSO only. Customers use Aglide to secure both individual apps (e.g., legacy banking portals, Discord, Squarespace) and sensitive shared accounts (e.g., AWS root, social media). Our agentic identity technology means Aglide works with any app out of the box - no integration catalog, no custom scripting. Today, companies from public fintechs like Gemini to media companies like The Motley Fool rely on Aglide’s zero-trust, end-to-end encrypted platform to complete their identity stack.

Aglide's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Aglide, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Aglide

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Connect every disconnected app to your SSO.

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

We built Aglide SSO to let IT and security teams connect legacy and non-standard apps directly to their existing identity providers like Okta, Entra, and OneLogin without app-side integration. This means apps that normally can't enforce corporate security policies suddenly behave like standard SSO-managed services with MFA, RBAC, and audit logging.

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

We live in London, United Kingdom, and plan to keep the company based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in London because that's where the founders live and where we built the product. The enterprise security community here is strong, and it's convenient for working with our early customers across fintech and media sectors.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Aglide YC application?

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