Pachyderm YC Application

Winter 2015Acquired

Pachyderm went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 60
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2014

Founders

Joe DolinerFounder/CEO
Joey ZwickerFounder

What Pachyderm does

Pachyderm is a tool for production data pipelines. If you need to chain together data scraping, ingestion, cleaning, munging, wrangling, processing, modeling, and analysis in a sane way, then Pachyderm is for you. If you have an existing set of scripts which do this in an ad-hoc fashion and you're looking for a way to "productionize" them, Pachyderm can make this easy for you.

Pachyderm's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Pachyderm, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pachyderm

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Data Versioning, Data Pipelines, and Data Lineage

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

We built Pachyderm to help teams build and manage production data pipelines reliably. It lets users chain together data scraping, ingestion, cleaning, munging, processing, and modeling in a way that is reproducible and maintainable. If you already have scripts cobbled together, Pachyderm lets you productionize them with version control and lineage tracking.

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 there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the center of the tech ecosystem and where our early users, developers, and team are located. Staying here lets us recruit the right engineers and remain close to customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pachyderm YC application?

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