Pyroscope YC Application

Winter 2021Acquired

Pyroscope 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 5
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2021

Founders

Ryan PerryFounder
Dmitry FilimonovFounder

What Pyroscope does

Pyroscope is an open source continuous profiling platform. With just a few lines of code it will help you debug performance issues and find bottlenecks in your code.

Pyroscope's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pyroscope

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open source continuous profiling software

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

We built an open source continuous profiling platform that collects performance profiles from production code with minimal setup. It helps engineers debug performance issues and find bottlenecks by providing continuous visibility into how code runs over time.

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

We live in Oakland, CA, and would base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are already based in Oakland and have built local roots. Keeping the company here makes sense because it's where our team is and where we have connections.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pyroscope YC application?

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