Echoes HQ YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Echoes HQ went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Arnaud PorterieFounder

What Echoes HQ does

Echoes gives engineering leaders visibility into the alignment of engineering efforts against the business goals and whether their deliveries are having actual business impacts. By doing so we enable engineering leaders to make informed decisions on hiring and priorities, to communicate effectively on their team's activity to their business partners/bosses/investors, and to build engagement by putting their team's work into context. We achieve this by offering a seamless way for engineers to connect their day-to-day contributions to their intent, creating the missing link between tech outputs and business outcomes.

Echoes HQ's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Echoes HQ, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Echoes HQ

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Measure and communicate engineering activity

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

We built a tool for engineering leaders that shows how engineering efforts align with business goals and whether deliveries are driving real business impact. Echoes connects engineers' daily work to company priorities so managers can make smarter decisions on hiring, priority-setting, and communication with business partners.

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

We currently live in Amsterdam and the Netherlands, with some of the team remote. After YC, we would base the company in Amsterdam and remain remote-friendly.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose Amsterdam because that's where our team is already based and we've built initial connections here. Remote work allows us to access talent beyond our location.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Echoes HQ YC application?

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