EnvKey YC Application
EnvKey went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 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 2018
- Industry
- B2BEngineering, Product and Design
- Team size
- 2
- Status
- Inactive
- Launched
- 2017
Founders
Dane SchneiderFounder
What EnvKey does
EnvKey is a developer-friendly, cross-platform, end-to-end encrypted configuration and secrets manager. It can be used to store API keys, database credentials, and other application config securely. EnvKey makes it easy to grant least-privilege access to the developers and servers that need it from a user-friendly UI. Integration takes minutes. Using EnvKey ensures that no 3rd party, including EnvKey itself, ever has access to your secrets. It takes a part of your system that used to be error-prone and insecure and makes it just work.
EnvKey's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
EnvKey, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
EnvKey
Encrypted secrets and configuration manager
We built EnvKey to manage application configuration and secrets like API keys and database passwords securely. It's end-to-end encrypted so that not even we can access your data, and gives teams an easy way to grant precise access through a simple UI.
We live in San Francisco and remote; the company would be based in San Francisco after YC.
San Francisco is where we're located and where most of our early users are, plus it's the center of tech and open to remote work, which fits our team size and early stage.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real EnvKey YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from EnvKey's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like EnvKey would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was EnvKey in?
EnvKey was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2018 batch.
Who founded EnvKey?
EnvKey was founded by Dane Schneider.
What does EnvKey do?
End-to-end encrypted configuration and secrets management
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of EnvKey's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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