Better Auth YC Application

Spring 2025Active

Better Auth went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2025 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: Spring 2025
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Bereket EngidaFounder

What Better Auth does

Better Auth is a comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript that lets you implement everything from simple auth flows to enterprise-grade systems directly on your own database, embedded in your backend. It’s loved by developers all over the world and endorsed by leading voices in the ecosystem. On top of the framework, Better Auth also provides an infrastructure layer to help you scale with user management and analytics, bot and fraud detection, transactional email and SMS, global session storage and more.

Better Auth's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Better Auth, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Better Auth

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Authentication framework for TypeScript

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

We build Better Auth, an authentication framework for TypeScript that lets developers implement auth flows directly on their own databases within their backend. It supports everything from simple login to enterprise-grade systems. On top of that, we offer infrastructure features like user management, analytics, bot and fraud detection, transactional email and SMS, and global session storage to help scale securely.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and our company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in San Francisco because that is where the team lives and it is the center of our developer and startup ecosystem, which keeps us connected to users and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Better Auth YC application?

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