Meridian Industries YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Meridian Industries 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: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Xavier PladevallFounder
Eduardo PortetFounder

What Meridian Industries does

Index is a next-generation business intelligence (BI) tool designed for data teams and analysts to rapidly create, share, and explore interactive dashboards. By combining powerful SQL capabilities with a collaborative workspace, Index simplifies complex data visualization and enables teams to make faster, data-driven decisions.

Meridian Industries's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Meridian Industries

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Index is the modern business intelligence platform

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

We built Index, a BI tool for data teams and analysts to create, share, and explore interactive dashboards quickly. It combines SQL querying with a collaborative workspace, so teams can visualize complex data without wrestling with traditional BI tools.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're in San Francisco to be close to customers, talent, and the startup ecosystem. This is where data teams and analytics professionals using our product are.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Meridian Industries YC application?

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