Lariat Data

Lariat Data YC Application

Summer 2021Inactive

Lariat Data went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry
B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size
3
Status
Inactive
Launched
2021

Founders

  • Aaditya Talwai
    Aaditya TalwaiFounder

What Lariat Data does

Lariat is a Continuous Data Quality monitoring platform to discover data bugs before your consumers do. Ensure data products don’t break even as business logic, input data and infrastructure change. Use Lariat to define and then automatically extract, store and visualize data quality metrics on raw event-level data through to delivered data products.

Lariat Data's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lariat Data, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lariat Data

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Observability for Data Engineering Teams

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

We are building Lariat, a continuous data quality monitoring platform that helps data engineering teams detect data bugs before they affect downstream consumers. Our product allows users to define and automatically extract, store, and visualize data quality metrics from raw event-level data all the way to delivered data products. It ensures that data products remain reliable as business logic, input data, and infrastructure evolve.

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

We live in New York, NY, and plan for the company to be based there after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in New York where our team lives and works. Staying here lets us remain close to early users and relevant data engineering and product teams in the city's vibrant tech ecosystem.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lariat Data YC application?

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

What YC batch was Lariat Data in?

Lariat Data was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2021 batch.

Who founded Lariat Data?

Lariat Data was founded by Aaditya Talwai.

What does Lariat Data do?

Observability for Data Engineering Teams

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Lariat Data's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

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