Elementary YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Elementary went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 12
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Maayan SalomFounder
Or AvidovFounder

What Elementary does

Elementary enables data teams to detect problems in their data before their users do. An open-source solution that any data engineer can deploy in minutes without sharing sensitive data.

Elementary's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Elementary, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Elementary

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open-source data observability for data teams

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

We build an open-source tool that data teams deploy to detect data problems before they affect users. Our software hooks into data pipelines and runs checks to find anomalies, missing data, or inaccuracies without exposing sensitive information. It's designed for data engineers who want reliable, easy-to-install monitoring without cloud vendor lock-in.

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

We live in Tel Aviv-Yafo and plan to base the company in Tel Aviv after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose Tel Aviv because it's where we both live and where our early users and engineers are. It has a strong data engineering community and good access to talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Elementary YC application?

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