Datost YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Datost went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2026 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 2026
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Maceo Cardinale KwikFounder
Jason WangFounder

What Datost does

Datost watches your docs, Slack, databases, data lakes, and codebase, surfacing issues, answering questions, and flagging anomalies before anyone asks. Query, debug, and analyze right where your team works

Datost's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Datost, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Datost

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The proactive AI data analyst

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

We are building an AI assistant that watches your company's documents, Slack messages, databases, data lakes, and codebase. It surfaces issues, answers questions, and flags anomalies before anyone asks, letting teams query, debug, and analyze data right where they work.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Datost is a B2B company serving teams that work with complex data environments. Being in San Francisco puts us close to customers, partners, and the tech community we rely on.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Datost YC application?

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