Scratch Data YC Application

Summer 2021Inactive

Scratch Data 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: 1
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Len BoyetteFounder

What Scratch Data does

ScratchDB is a platform that automates all aspects of managing an analytical database: server configuration, data ingestion, queries, replication, and sharding. We are built on top of Clickhouse with a developer experience that you'll love.

Scratch Data's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Scratch Data

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Analytics platform for builders

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

We make ScratchDB, a platform that automates managing analytical databases. It handles server setup, data ingestion, querying, replication, and sharding, all built on Clickhouse to deliver a developer-friendly experience for building data analytics tools.

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

We live primarily in New York, NY, and plan to base the company there or remotely after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in New York connects us to a strong B2B and developer tools ecosystem, and remote work fits our small team and early stage perfectly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Scratch Data YC application?

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