Amiato YC Application

Winter 2012Acquired

Amiato went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 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: Winter 2012
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2011

Founders

Nathan BinkertFounder

What Amiato does

Amiato's real-time integration service moves your data to where it's most valuable to you. Today's flexible databases like MongoDB and CouchBase let agile businesses accelerate and scale their operations, but analyzing their data has been elusive. Amiato unlocks the value of that unstructured data by bridging the gap to familiar tools in the rich structured world of BI, all with zero setup work. Run reports, do interactive ad-hoc analysis, and combine disparate silos. Our Schema-lift (TM) technology allows you to immediately integrate new endpoints and seamlessly keep up with changes in your data. We get customers up and running in a day instead of weeks, and let them focus on business instead of wrestling infrastructure.

Amiato's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Amiato, Winter 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Amiato

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

BI bridge for unstructured data

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

We built a real-time integration service that moves unstructured data from flexible NoSQL databases like MongoDB and CouchBase to traditional BI tools without setup. Our product uses Schema-lift™ technology to make integrating new data sources and adapting to changes fast, so customers can run reports and explore their data instantly instead of wrestling with infrastructure for weeks.

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

We live in Palo Alto, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Palo Alto keeps us close to engineering talent and potential customers in the data and analytics space. It also puts us in the center of the startup ecosystem and YC itself.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Amiato YC application?

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