SigNoz YC Application

Winter 2021Active

SigNoz went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2021
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 38
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Pranay PrateekFounder
Ankit NayanFounder

What SigNoz does

SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability too

SigNoz's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

SigNoz, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

SigNoz

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open source alternative to DataDog

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

We built SigNoz, an open-source observability platform that collects and visualizes application logs, traces, and metrics in one place. It is native to OpenTelemetry and serves as an open-source alternative to commercial tools like DataDog and NewRelic for application performance monitoring and observability.

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

We live in San Francisco and operate remotely as well. After YC, the company will remain based in San Francisco with a distributed team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose San Francisco to be close to the developer and enterprise SaaS ecosystems where monitoring and observability are critical. Remote work lets us tap talent globally while keeping a presence in the Bay Area.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real SigNoz YC application?

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