Avenue YC Application

Winter 2021Acquired

Avenue went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 8
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2021

Founders

Justin BleuelCo-Founder & CEO
Jeff BargFounder

What Avenue does

Avenue is a simple way for business teams to set up alerts from their database or data warehouse. Think Datadog / PagerDuty for operations teams. Operations teams create set-and-forget alerts on all their data, so they can be more proactive with their time (and monitor on more nuanced triggers than just what fits on their dashboard page). Avenue can improve response times to critical problems from several days to real-time by alerting directly on the data sources that customers already use.

Avenue's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Avenue, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Avenue

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Observability platform for operations teams

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

We built Avenue to help operations teams set up alerts directly from their existing databases or data warehouses. Instead of staring at dashboards or manually checking data, our users create alerts that run continuously on nuanced conditions. This catches critical problems faster by monitoring the raw business data behind their operations, cutting response times from days to real-time.

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

We live and work in New York City. After YC, the company would remain based in New York.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where both founders live and where the team currently operates. We want to build the product close to our users and our network in operations and data teams here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Avenue YC application?

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