Deepnote YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Deepnote went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2019
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Jakub JurovychFounder

What Deepnote does

Data science is as much a scientific and creative process as it is an engineering one. It involves working together, failing, learning and going back to the drawing board. Data scientists are explorers. To make data projects successful, we need tools that are both powerful and easy to use. Tools that help us collaborate and share our work in an engaging way. Tools that make data science fun again. At Deepnote, we’re building a new standard in data tooling - a notebook that brings teams together to explore, analyze and present data from start to finish. We are building tools for explorers. Join us.

Deepnote's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Deepnote, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Deepnote

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

A better data science notebook.

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

We are building a data science notebook that helps teams explore, analyze, and present data collaboratively from start to finish. It's designed to make data science easier, more powerful, and more fun by focusing on teamwork and iteration.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company would be based in San Francisco after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the concentration of data scientists and engineering talent we want close by. It's where our users and potential teammates are.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Deepnote YC application?

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