Metaplane YC Application

Winter 2020Acquired

Metaplane went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 32
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2021

Founders

Guru MahendranFounder
Kevin HuFounder

What Metaplane does

Metaplane ensures everyone trusts the data that powers your business. Data teams at Bose, Ramp, and Klaviyo use our data observability platform to prevent and detect data issues - before the CEO pings them about weird revenue numbers. We do this with ML-based anomaly detection, end-to-end column-level lineage, and tools to help prevent incidents before they occur. You can monitor your entire data stack within 30 minutes. The company is backed by Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, and the founders of Okta, HubSpot, and Vercel.

Metaplane's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Metaplane, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Metaplane

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Data observability for modern data teams

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

We built a data observability platform that lets data teams monitor their entire data stack quickly. Our product detects data issues using machine learning anomaly detection, maps column-level lineage end to end, and offers tools to prevent incidents before they impact business decisions. Users can set it up and see monitoring within 30 minutes.

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

We live and work in New York City, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in New York because that's where we built early traction and formed the founding team. Staying here keeps us close to our initial customers and network.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Metaplane YC application?

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