Datamode YC Application

Winter 2019Inactive

Datamode went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 1
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2018

Founders

Andrew KimFounder

What Datamode does

We're building a tool to help data engineers diagnose problems in their data pipelines. Datamode integrates with the technologies you use to provide a single place to start investigating problems and reduce the mean time to diagnosis. This means higher data quality and improved reliability for the business.

Datamode's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Datamode, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Datamode

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Tool for data engineers to diagnose pipeline issues

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

We're building Datamode to help data engineers quickly diagnose problems in their data pipelines. It connects directly to the tools they already use and surfaces where and why data issues occur, cutting investigation time and improving pipeline reliability.

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

I live in Seattle, WA, and the company would be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Seattle is where I am now and where I built the product, so it's natural to keep the company here. The remote nature of data engineering work also means being tied to Silicon Valley isn't required.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Datamode YC application?

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