Cotool YC Application

Spring 2025Active

Cotool 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

Logan CarmodyFounder
Eddie ConkFounder
Max PollardFounder

What Cotool does

Cotool is an agentic security platform that eliminates manual and repetitive work for security teams. Today’s cybersecurity teams remain bogged down by alert fatigue, context switching, and documentation overhead. Security teams don't need more dashboards with "AI-powered insights" - they need their time back. Cotool empowers teams to build security their way. Our platform provides an AI co-pilot that automatically assembles context across tools, a no-code agent builder that transforms successful investigations into reusable automations, and automated report generation, providing comprehensive documentation in seconds. Unlike solutions that force teams to adapt to vendor workflows, Cotool puts the power of AI directly in practitioners' hands, letting them shape tools around their unique processes. Early users have already cut time spent on investigation and detection engineering by 70%.

Cotool's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cotool

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Agents for Security Operations Teams

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

We're building an agentic security platform that removes manual and repetitive tasks for security teams. Our product acts like an AI co-pilot that pulls context from existing security tools, lets teams create no-code agents that automate investigations, and generates reports automatically, saving teams from alert fatigue and endless documentation.

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

We all live in San Francisco, and Cotool is based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco puts us close to the cybersecurity community and potential customers. It also keeps us near peers and early users for rapid feedback.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cotool YC application?

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