Keep YC Application

Winter 2023Acquired

Keep 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 5
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2023

Founders

Tal BorensteinFounder
Shahar GlaznerFounder

What Keep does

Keep is an open-source AIOps platform. Keep acts as a single pane of glass to all your alerts from any monitoring tool and helps you turn 1000s into just 10s of meaningful alerts. Keep joined forces with Elastic on May 2025.

Keep's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Keep

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The open-source AIOps platform

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

We built Keep to be an open-source AIOps platform that consolidates alerts from any monitoring tool into a single dashboard. Our product reduces thousands of noisy alerts to just tens of actionable ones, helping engineering and product teams focus on real problems rather than fire drills.

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

We live in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, and after YC the company would remain based here with remote team members.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Tel Aviv has a strong tech ecosystem and access to engineering talent, which suits our remote-friendly startup and lets us stay close to users and partners in the B2B monitoring space.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Keep YC application?

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