Paragon YC Application

Winter 2020Active

Paragon 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 48
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Brandon FooFounder
Ishmael SamuelFounder

What Paragon does

Paragon enables companies to build products that integrate with the SaaS ecosystem. With Paragon, software companies can integrate with hundreds of different SaaS apps in minutes while providing their customers with a seamless, unified integration experience

Paragon's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Paragon

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The embedded integration platform for SaaS apps.

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

We are building a platform that lets software companies embed integrations with hundreds of SaaS products quickly. Our product handles connecting to these apps and managing those connections inside the customer's product, making it easy to build user-friendly integrations without custom connector engineering.

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

We live in Los Angeles, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Los Angeles is where we have our team and early traction. We want to build where we live and have established a strong local network.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Paragon YC application?

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