Mito YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Mito went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2020
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Aaron Diamond-ReivichFounder
Jake Diamond-ReivichFounder

What Mito does

Mito is Cursor for data science. We’re building an AI enabled IDE to 10x the productivity of data people. Data analysts use Mito to automate reports without relying on internal engineering resources. Mito is used by thousands of business analysts, data scientists, and automation engineers at some of the world's largest banks, private equity shops, and consulting firms. Open source is key to our enterprise sales strategy. Mito is open source and built on top of Jupyter. That means getting started with Mito is as simple as running `pip install` and doesn't require enterprises to manager new infrastructure. Check us out at:

Mito's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Mito, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Mito

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Cursor for data analysis

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

We're building an AI-enabled IDE called Mito that is like a cursor for data science. It lets data analysts automate reports and workflows without needing to wait for engineering help. Our product is an open source project built on top of Jupyter, which makes it easy for users to get started by just running `pip install`. It helps business analysts, data scientists, and automation engineers 10x their productivity when working with data.

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

We live and work primarily in New York, NY, and our team is remote. After YC, the company will continue to be based out of New York with remote contributors.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where all three founders live, and it positions us close to some of our early enterprise users in banking, private equity, and consulting. Remote work lets us be flexible while maintaining this connection.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Mito YC application?

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