Castled.io YC Application

Winter 2022Inactive

Castled.io went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 8
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Manish SinghFounder
Franklin GeorgeFounder
Abhilash ThulaseedharanFounder
Arun ThulasidharanFounder

What Castled.io does

Castled.io is a Customer Engagement Platform (CEP) that brings the power of data in the warehouse to the marketer. Essentially, Castled.io is similar in feature set to Braze, CustomerIO or MoEngage with a major difference - We don't store your customer data. Instead Castled sits on top of your cloud data warehouse to create segments and engage them across channels.

Castled.io's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Castled.io, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Castled.io

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Customer engagement on BigQuery/Snowflake

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

We built a customer engagement platform that lets marketers create segments and run campaigns directly on their own cloud data warehouse - BigQuery or Snowflake. Unlike other tools that force you to export or replicate data, our platform queries your warehouse in real time and triggers engagement without moving data. This keeps data secure, up to date, and under customer control.

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

We live in Bengaluru, India, and the company is based here. After YC, we'd keep our base in Bengaluru.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Bengaluru is where all four founders live and work. It's a growing tech hub, and we have strong networks here. We can build and scale the product effectively without relocating.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Castled.io YC application?

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