SafeBase YC Application

Summer 2020Acquired

SafeBase went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2020
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 60
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2020

Founders

Al YangFounder
Adar ArnonFounder

What SafeBase does

Trust Center Platform SafeBase Trust Center enables Security teams to proactively share and automate access to security, compliance, and privacy information/ complete security questionnaires.

SafeBase's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

SafeBase

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Trust Center platform for customer security reviews

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

SafeBase is a Trust Center platform that helps security teams share and automate access to security, compliance, and privacy information and complete customer security questionnaires. Our product reduces the manual work and delays that come with customer security reviews, scaling the review process across large and complex organizations.

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

We live and operate primarily out of San Francisco, CA with some remote team members. After YC, we plan to continue being based in San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and work, and it's the hub for SaaS and security-focused startups. Staying here keeps us close to customers, partners, and investors in our target market.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real SafeBase YC application?

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