Infield YC Application

Winter 2020Active

Infield went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Allison PikeFounder
Steve PikeFounder

What Infield does

Infield helps software teams keep their open source dependencies up to date. We’re automating away the toilsome work of reading changelogs, assessing risk, and upgrading packages so that software teams can focus on shipping features. We’re a small team of repeat founders passionate about making open source easier to use.

Infield's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Infield, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Infield

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Safer, faster dependency upgrades

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

We build a tool that automates the process of upgrading open source dependencies for software teams. Our product reads changelogs, assesses upgrade risks, and performs package upgrades so engineers can spend less time on tedious maintenance and more on building features.

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

We live in New York, NY, with a remote team. After YC, we'll keep the company based in New York and continue supporting remote work.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose New York because that's where we're based, and we want to build a company here while accessing remote talent. It fits our lifestyle and team structure.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Infield YC application?

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