Etleap YC Application

Winter 2013Active

Etleap went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2013 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 2013
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 11
Status: Active
Launched: 2012

Founders

Christian RommingFounder/CEO

What Etleap does

Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. Unlike other enterprise solutions, Etleap doesn’t require extensive engineering work to set up, maintain, and scale. It automates most ETL setup and maintenance work, and simplifies the rest into 10-minute tasks that analysts can own.

Etleap's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Etleap, Winter 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Etleap

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

ETL solution for building data pipelines

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

We built Etleap, an ETL platform that automates most setup and maintenance for data pipelines and simplifies the rest into tasks analysts can handle in under 10 minutes. It creates reliable data pipelines from day one without needing heavy engineering resources.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco gives us direct access to engineering talent and our core customer base of data-driven companies. Being here helps us stay close to the market and iterate quickly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Etleap YC application?

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