Okay YC Application

Winter 2020Acquired

Okay 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: B2BProductivity
Team size: 4
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2020

Founders

Tomas BarretoFounder
Antoine BoulangerFounder

Okay's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Okay

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Dashboards and actionable insights for engineering

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

We've built dashboards that deliver actionable insights specifically for engineering teams. Our product surfaces key metrics and issues that help high-performing engineering teams improve their productivity and reliability. It connects directly to their DevOps and analytics tools to show data that matters in one place.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company would continue to be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco puts us close to other startups, engineering teams, and investors. It's where we can best build relationships with early customers and partners in the B2B productivity space.

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 Okay YC application?

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