NewsCatcher YC Application

Summer 2022Active

NewsCatcher went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 22
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Artem BugaraFounder
Maksym SugonyakaFounder

What NewsCatcher does

CatchAll by NewsCatcher is a recall-first web search API built for queries where the results are spread across hundreds or thousands of pages on the web. Instead of returning the top ranked links like traditional search engines, CatchAll retrieves a large candidate set from the web, validates which pages actually match the query, and extracts structured records of real-world events. Developers and data teams use CatchAll to answer “long-list” questions such as tracking regulatory actions, funding rounds, product launches, corporate expansions, or cybersecurity incidents. The output is not just links but clean, deduplicated datasets that can power AI agents, monitoring systems, analytics pipelines, and market intelligence workflows. CatchAll runs on the data infrastructure developed by NewsCatcher, which continuously indexes millions of articles and public web pages across a global network of sources.

NewsCatcher's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

NewsCatcher, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

NewsCatcher

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Turning the web into a structured database of events

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

We built CatchAll by NewsCatcher, an API that takes queries needing comprehensive web search and returns structured, deduplicated records about real-world events instead of just links. It indexes millions of articles globally, validates matches beyond top search results, and extracts clean data sets users integrate into analytics and AI workflows.

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

We are based in Kyiv, Ukraine, and operate remotely. After YC, we plan to maintain our distributed team but likely formalize operations with a base in Kyiv.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Kyiv is where both Maksym and Artem live and where our initial core team formed. We have access to local technical talent and are connected to global remote users, so it makes sense to keep Kyiv as our headquarters while staying flexible with a remote setup.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real NewsCatcher YC application?

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