Chartio YC Application

Summer 2010Acquired

Chartio went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2010 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 2010
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 40
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Dave FowlerFounder/CEO

What Chartio does

Chartio is a cloud-based data exploration solution for all. Easily connect your data and create powerful dashboards in minutes, without any SQL knowledge.

Chartio's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Chartio, Summer 2010 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Chartio

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Cloud data dashboard and analytics tool

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

We are building a cloud-based data exploration platform that lets anyone in a company connect their database and create dashboards without writing SQL. Our product is designed to make data accessible to non-technical users, allowing teams to explore and visualize their data quickly and intuitively.

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

We currently live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we both live and where many companies needing analytics tools are located. It puts us close to customers, talent, and the YC community.

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 Chartio YC application?

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