MinusX YC Application

Summer 2024Active

MinusX went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Vivek AithalFounder
Sreejith PuthanpurayilFounder

What MinusX does

MinusX is a state-of-the-art data agent that can build the best dashboards for your data, and notify you when something's up. You can interrogate all your data on our open source BI platform via Slack or MCP. Connect your data, and put agents to work.

MinusX's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

MinusX, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

MinusX

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open source agentic BI for founders

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

We built MinusX to connect directly to a founder's data and automatically generate the best dashboards on an open source BI platform. Our agent notifies founders proactively about important changes or anomalies. Users interact with their data through Slack or MCP, making BI conversational and actionable without needing to build queries or reports manually.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we all currently live and where the startup ecosystem and early customers are. Staying local lets us move fast, meet users easily, and plug into YC and Bay Area networks.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real MinusX YC application?

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