Grai YC Application

Summer 2022Inactive

Grai went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2022
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 3
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2022

Founders

Ian EavesFounder

What Grai does

Grai is open source version control for metadata. We can determine how database changes will affect deployed machine learning models, apis, and dashboards because we understand how data relates across systems which don’t otherwise talk to each other.

Grai's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Grai, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Grai

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open source version control for metadata

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

We build open source version control tooling for metadata. Grai lets data engineers and platform teams track how changes in databases affect machine learning models, APIs, and dashboards by mapping data dependencies across disconnected systems. This means teams can manage metadata like code and understand impact before deploys.

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

Our team is spread across San Francisco, London, and St. Louis, and we would base the company in San Francisco after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose these locations based on where the founders live and work. Post-YC, San Francisco is best to access YC resources, investors, and customers in data infrastructure.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Grai YC application?

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