Recidiviz YC Application
Recidiviz went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 batch as a Government 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 2019
- Industry
- Government
- Team size
- 120
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2019
Founders
Joshua EssexFounder
Clementine JacobyFounder
What Recidiviz does
Recidiviz is a non-profit technology company that drives meaningful changes in criminal justice systems and improved outcomes for justice-impacted individuals. Criminal justice data today is inefficient and ineffective: researchers, advocates, policymakers and practitioners each need funding and time for data collection and cleaning (for almost any data at all), and most data collected is too stale by the time it’s compiled to be useful. Recidiviz has built an open-source platform to ingest data from across data silos, link it, standardize it, and expose it in usable formats to the ecosystem. We provide products and analyses on top of this platform to help government agencies understand how their justice systems are functioning, set and track progress towards goals, drive evidence-based improvements to practice and policy, and ensure justice-impacted folks reenter their communities as safely and quickly as they can.
Recidiviz's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Recidiviz, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Recidiviz
Helping create a smaller, fairer, safer justice system
We build an open-source platform that collects and standardizes criminal justice data from multiple government agencies. Our product links these data silos, making them usable for research, policy, and government decision-making. We provide tools for tracking justice system performance and improving outcomes for people reentering communities.
We live and work in New York, NY, and plan to base the company here after YC.
New York is where our network, government partners, and most of our team are located. Being close to stakeholders in criminal justice makes data access and impact more feasible.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Recidiviz YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Recidiviz's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Recidiviz would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Recidiviz in?
Recidiviz was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2019 batch.
Who founded Recidiviz?
Recidiviz was founded by Joshua Essex, Clementine Jacoby.
What does Recidiviz do?
Helping create a smaller, fairer, safer justice system
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Recidiviz's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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