Conntour YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Conntour went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 batch as a Industrials 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 2025
Industry: IndustrialsDefense
Team size: 15
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Matan GoldnerCo-Founder & CEO
Tomer KullaCo-Founder & CTO

What Conntour does

Conntour enables organizations to query thousands of security cameras using natural language. Users can search past footage (“Find a man with tattoos on his left arm”), configure real-time alerts (“Notify me if someone climbs over the wall”), and extract data (“How many pickup trucks entered yesterday?”). Unlike traditional video analytics limited to pre-defined parameters (like a weapon, bag, or license plate), Conntour supports unlimited, highly specific scenarios described in plain language. This enables a single human to monitor thousands of cameras. Matan (CEO) worked with security cameras for years, leading video surveillance in the Israeli Military. Tomer (CTO) is a second-time founder and former director of engineering. Our team also includes computer vision experts from Israel’s elite 8200 intelligence unit and former top officials from the Mossad. Conntour is backed by General Catalyst, selected for the first-ever Palantir fellowship, and advised by Bob Flores, former CTO at the CIA.

Conntour's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Conntour, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Conntour

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI to monitor thousands of security cameras

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

We built an AI platform that lets organizations query thousands of security cameras using natural language. Users can search past footage, set real-time alerts, and extract data about specific events. Unlike traditional video analytics that rely on a fixed set of parameters, our system understands unlimited plain-language queries, enabling a single human to monitor many cameras at once.

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

We are primarily based in Israel. After YC, we will remain in the same location.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our team is centered in Israel, where our founders and key team members live and have deep expertise. Staying here keeps us close to our security and AI talent, including alumni from 8200 and military units who understand the domain intimately.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Conntour YC application?

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