DeepSource YC Application

Winter 2020Active

DeepSource went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 12
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Sanket SauravCo-founder & CEO
Jai PradeeshCo-founder, President

What DeepSource does

DeepSource helps developers ship clean and secure software by automatically scanning their code and fixing it with Autofix™ AI. We're trusted by 7,000+ teams, from startups to Fortune 500s.

DeepSource's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

DeepSource, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

DeepSource

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Unified DevSecOps platform for shipping good code

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

We build a platform that automatically scans developers' code for quality and security issues, then fixes problems with our Autofix AI. It's integrated into their workflows so teams ship cleaner, safer code without slowing down.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco lets us stay close to engineering teams and developer communities we serve, making it easier to build and test tools that developers want.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real DeepSource YC application?

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