Soteris YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Soteris went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 batch as a Fintech 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 2019
Industry: FintechInsurance
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Sunit ShahFounder

What Soteris does

Soteris is a YC-backed company with a four-person team and a great investor base building a first-of-its-kind data ML pricing system for insurance, starting with personal auto.

Soteris's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Soteris, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Soteris

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

ML software to better price insurance risk

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

We build a machine learning pricing system that insurance companies use to more accurately select and price risk, starting with personal auto insurance. Our software processes data to improve underwriting decisions and reduce loss ratios for carriers.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the team is based and where we have access to both tech talent and insurance industry connections, making it the best location for us to grow.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Soteris YC application?

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