Appcanary YC Application

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Profile updated September 9, 2026Summer 2015Acquired

Toronto, ON, Canada

Appcanary went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BSecurity
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2015

Founders

Filipa Mendonça-VieiraFounder
Max VeytsmanFounder

What Appcanary does

Never run vulnerable software again. We monitor your servers, and notify you when you need to update. Try us for free:

Appcanary's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Appcanary, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Appcanary

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Tracks app and server dependencies for security

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

We built a monitoring tool that tracks the open-source and third-party dependencies your apps and servers use. It alerts you when any of those dependencies have known vulnerabilities so you can update before being hacked or affected.

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

We live in Toronto, Canada, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in Toronto because that's where we both live and can build the product efficiently. We believe the location won't limit our reach since the product is SaaS and sold online globally.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Appcanary YC application?

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