Crustdata YC Application

Fall 2024Active

Crustdata went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2024 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: Fall 2024
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 20
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Abhilash ChowdharyCo-founder and CEO
Manmohit GrewalFounder
Chris PisarskiFounder

What Crustdata does

Crustdata provides live company and people data via APIs and full dataset delivery. We make hard to get data easy to use at scale. Customers use us to build their AI agent platforms and applications over our trusted data. We power builders of: -AI SDRs -AI sales platofmrs -AI recruiting platforms -AI investment/due diligence platforms -Internal sales or marketing platforms We serve use cases like: automatic pipeline building, pipeline prioritization, champion watching, company and people triggers for sales and marketing automation, investment deal sourcing We have developed technology that allows us to pipe in live data from over a dozen different data sources and deliver this data instantly to our customers. Our goal is index all the important data on the web and deliver it to customers in an easy-to-use way.

Crustdata's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Crustdata, Fall 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Crustdata

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Real-time B2B data via simple APIs

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

We build an API platform that serves live company and people data to businesses. Our product consolidates over a dozen data sources and delivers clean, instant access through APIs or full data pipelines. Customers use us to power AI-driven sales, recruiting, investment, and marketing platforms that need accurate, real-time information on companies and contacts.

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

We are currently distributed and open to relocating after YC if it makes sense.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We started distributed to attract top talent and serve customers worldwide, but we are flexible about basing location after YC depending on what helps us grow fastest.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Crustdata YC application?

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