Basedash YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Basedash went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Max MusingFounder

What Basedash does

Basedash is the AI-native Business Intelligence platform. Create dashboards and instantly understand your customers using natural language. Connect 500+ data sources, ask a question, and let Basedash visualize the answer.

Basedash's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Basedash, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Basedash

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The AI-native business intelligence platform

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

We are building Basedash, an AI-native BI platform that connects to over 500 data sources and lets users ask questions in natural language to get instant dashboards and visualizations. It removes the friction of traditional BI tooling by using AI to understand and visualize customer and business data immediately.

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

We are based in Montreal, Canada but we work remotely. After YC, we plan to stay remote with the team distributed.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Montreal has a strong tech talent pool and lower costs compared to typical startup hubs. Remote work lets us hire globally and stay lean.

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 Basedash YC application?

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