RTCanary YC Application

Summer 2020Inactive

RTCanary went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 batch as a Consumer 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 2020
Industry: ConsumerVirtual and Augmented Reality
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

David AlbersFounder
Ayan BandyopadhyayFounder
Michael RupprechtFounder
Kapil SinhaFounder
Bradley JusticeFounder

What RTCanary does

WebRTC is the reason we’ve stayed connected and productive during the COVID era, powering most of the browser-based video communications platforms you use every day (Google Meet, Facebook Messenger, etc.). But when a call gets dropped or the audio cuts out, it’s hard for the video developers to understand why it happened. This is a major problem for new players in the video chat industry that lose customers because of call quality issues; customers should be able to use video platforms with the features they want without having to sacrifice call quality.

RTCanary's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

RTCanary, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

RTCanary

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Monitoring and analytics for video chat platforms

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

We built a plugin that monitors WebRTC calls across any browser-based video platform like Google Meet or Facebook Messenger. It captures detailed real-time data on call quality issues so developers can diagnose why calls drop or audio cuts out. This helps new video platforms improve user experience and retention without sacrificing call quality.

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

We live in San Jose, CA and remotely across the US. The company would be based in San Jose after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Jose is where most of us live and work currently. Being in Silicon Valley puts us close to both engineering talent and the large video platform ecosystem we build for.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real RTCanary YC application?

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