Operand YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Operand went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 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 2025
Industry: B2B
Team size: 8
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Ram GorthiFounder
Akhil IyengarFounder
Arjun SahneyFounder

Operand's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Operand, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Operand

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Tools to help developers understand large codebases

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

We are building a platform that helps software engineers and engineering teams navigate and understand large codebases quickly. Our product indexes, queries, and visualizes complex code relationships so developers spend less time figuring out unfamiliar code and more time building features.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live, where most team members are based, and where our early users and engineering customers are located. Staying here lets us move fastest and tap into local developer talent and networks.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Operand YC application?

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