PagerDuty YC Application
PagerDuty went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2010 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 2010
- Industry
- B2BEngineering, Product and Design
- Team size
- 950
- Status
- Public
- Launched
- 2012
Founders
Alex SolomonFounder/CTO
What PagerDuty does
PagerDuty is an operations performance platform delivering visibility and actionable intelligence across the entire incident lifecycle. Their SaaS-based solution empowers over 10,000 small, mid-size and enterprise global customers such as Comcast, eHarmony, Slack and Lululemon with the insight to intelligently respond to critical disruptions for exceptional customer experience. PagerDuty was founded to deliver a new and innovative approach to increase business response and efficiency. When brand reputation depends on customer satisfaction, PagerDuty arms businesses with the insight to proactively manage incidents and events that may impact customers across their IT environment.
PagerDuty's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
PagerDuty, Summer 2010 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
PagerDuty
Real-time visibility into critical apps and services
We're building a SaaS platform that consolidates monitoring data to give engineers real-time visibility into incidents across all their critical applications and infrastructure. It routes alerts to the right people instantly, helping teams respond faster to service disruptions that impact customers.
We live and work in San Francisco, CA. After YC, the company will remain based here.
San Francisco is where our early customers and the DevOps community are concentrated. Being here gives us direct access to users and partners who understand the complex problems we're solving.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real PagerDuty YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from PagerDuty's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like PagerDuty would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was PagerDuty in?
PagerDuty was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2010 batch.
Who founded PagerDuty?
PagerDuty was founded by Alex Solomon.
What does PagerDuty do?
Real-time visibility into critical apps and services all in one place.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of PagerDuty's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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