Jitsu YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Jitsu went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2020
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Vladimir KlimontovichFounder

What Jitsu does

Jitsu is the fastest, most durable way to collect event data from every source - web, app, email, chatbot, CRM - into your data warehouse. 100% open-source. Purpose built, secure and ready in minutes.

Jitsu's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Jitsu, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Jitsu

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Capture Event Data into Your Stack

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

We're building Jitsu, an open-source platform that collects event data from any source - websites, apps, emails, chatbots, CRMs - and loads it into data warehouses. It's designed to be fast, reliable, and ready to set up in minutes, giving engineers and product teams control over their data pipelines without complex custom ETL.

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

We live in New York City, San Francisco, and remotely. After YC, the company will remain distributed but keep a strong presence in these locations.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose these locations because they have strong engineering talent and access to customers in tech and analytics. Being distributed lets us hire the best people and support users worldwide.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Jitsu YC application?

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