Prequel YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Prequel went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 9
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Charles ChretienFounder
Conor McCarterFounder

What Prequel does

Prequel makes it easy for companies to share data with their customers. It helps you export data directly to your customer's Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks, or other data warehouse on an ongoing basis.

Prequel's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Prequel, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Prequel

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Helping B2B co's sync data to their customers

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

Prequel makes it easy for companies to share data with their customers by exporting their data directly into the customers' data warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or Databricks on an ongoing basis. We built a tool to automate and manage this data sync so B2B companies don't have to build custom pipelines for every client.

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

We live in New York, NY, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York has a strong B2B SaaS ecosystem and proximity to many potential customers in finance and tech. It fits our team and market well.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Prequel YC application?

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