Escape YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Escape went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 29
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Tristan KalosFounder
Antoine CarossioFounder

What Escape does

Replace legacy scanners and manual offensive security processes with AI agents that discover, test, and remediate directly in your engineering workflows.

Escape's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Escape, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Escape

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Offensive security for teams 100x outnumbered

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

We build AI agents that replace legacy scanners and manual offensive security by discovering, testing, and remediating vulnerabilities inside engineering workflows. Instead of waiting on security teams, developers get continuous, automated offensive security tailored to how their code evolves.

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

We live in New York, NY, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York lets us tap into a vibrant tech scene and draw on local talent. It's where Tristan and Antoine are rooted and where the team has grown to 29 engineers.

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.

See full application

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Escape YC application?

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