Lantern YC Application

Summer 2019Inactive

Lantern went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 4
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2019

Founders

Bastien BeurierFounder
Guillaume LachaudFounder

What Lantern does

User behavior monitoring for modern product teams. It works autonomously - no code, no configuration, no data expertise required.

Lantern's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lantern, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lantern

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

User behavior monitoring for product teams

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

We built Lantern to track and analyze user behavior automatically for product teams without requiring any code changes or configuration. It surfaces insights on how users engage with software so teams can make data-driven decisions without needing data science skills.

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

We live in San Francisco, California and have team members working remotely. We plan to base the company in San Francisco after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are already located and where most product teams we target are based. It's also the right ecosystem for product and analytics startups.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lantern YC application?

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