Luciq (formerly Instabug) YC Application

Winter 2016Active

Luciq (formerly Instabug) went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2016 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 2016
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 250
Status: Active
Launched: 2015

Founders

Moataz SolimanFounder/CEO
Omar GabrFounder/President

What Luciq (formerly Instabug) does

Luciq is the Agentic Observability Platform for Mobile. Our intelligent AI agents detect, prioritize, and resolve issues across the app lifecycle, empowering teams to ship faster, deliver frustration-free sessions, and focus on building what matters.

Luciq (formerly Instabug)'s YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Luciq (formerly Instabug), Winter 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Luciq (formerly Instabug)

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Agentic Observability Platform for Mobile

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

We build Luciq, an AI-driven platform that detects, prioritizes, and resolves mobile app issues throughout the app lifecycle. Our system helps engineering, product, and design teams ship faster by automatically surfacing relevant bugs and session problems so they can focus on building features instead of firefighting.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, and the company will continue to be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where engineers and product teams we serve are concentrated. The ecosystem here enables us to hire the right talent and stay close to customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Luciq (formerly Instabug) YC application?

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

What YC batch was Luciq (formerly Instabug) in?

Luciq (formerly Instabug) was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2016 batch.

Who founded Luciq (formerly Instabug)?

Luciq (formerly Instabug) was founded by Moataz Soliman, Omar Gabr.

What does Luciq (formerly Instabug) do?

Agentic Observability Platform for Mobile

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Luciq (formerly Instabug)'s application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.