Skypher YC Application

Winter 2020Active

Skypher went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2020
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 12
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Louis MutricyFounder
Gaspard de LacroixFounder

What Skypher does

Skypher is an AI agent platform that automates your security/privacy/ddq/esg compliance questionnaires response process making it 10x faster. We save dozens of hours for @Deel, @Retool or Adobe's engineering, sales, customer success, and security leaders on security questionnaires and speed up their sales cycle by 20%. Skypher was launched in 2019 in San Francisco and is now the market leader in security questionnaires response automation with 200+ global customers worldwide across North America, Europe and India. We work with Fortune 500 companies such as Adobe, McKinsey & Company, TeamViewer or CMA CGM as well as fast growing tech companies like Deel, TCN or Retool. With a team of over 30 people across Europe and North America with global offices in New York and Paris.

Skypher's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Skypher, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Skypher

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI agent for Compliance Questionnaires Automation

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

We built an AI agent platform that automates responses to security, privacy, DDQ, and ESG compliance questionnaires. This lets teams at companies like Deel and Adobe save dozens of hours per questionnaire and shortens sales cycles by about 20%. Essentially, we make the whole compliance response process much faster and less painful.

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

We live in New York, and the company is based there, with offices in Paris as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where our main team is now, and it's a major hub for the customers we serve. We have a split presence because our founders are originally from Europe and we serve international clients, so having offices both here and in Paris helps us cover key markets.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Skypher YC application?

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