Satsuma YC Application

Summer 2021Acquired

Satsuma went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2021
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 5
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2022

Founders

Jonathan KauFounder
Dan LiFounder

What Satsuma does

Satsuma is a developer tool for building applications on top of real-time blockchain data. Our product lets developers take decoded data from multiple chains, customize it for their use cases, and access it through API endpoints. Blockchains serve as distributed databases for these products, holding their most important data. However, it’s difficult to access and query that data. We believe this friction is an enormous blocker for web3 developers and that better tooling will enable mass adoption for web3. We’re a founding team of engineers, having built data infrastructure and product as early employees at Airtable, Heap, and Y Combinator.

Satsuma's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Satsuma, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Satsuma

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Reliable blockchain indexing & querying for web3

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

We build developer tools that let teams access real-time blockchain data through customizable APIs. Our product takes decoded data from multiple chains, indexes it, and exposes it for querying so developers can build web3 apps without wrestling with raw blockchain nodes.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and the company is based here with some remote team members. We'd stay in SF after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

SF is where the founding team lives and where much of web3 engineering happens. Being here keeps us close to users, partners, and talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Satsuma YC application?

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