Sqreen YC Application

Winter 2018Acquired

Sqreen went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 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 2018
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 120
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2017

Founders

Jean-Baptiste AviatFounder/CTO

What Sqreen does

Sqreen is the application security platform for the modern enterprise. More than 800 organizations trust Sqreen to protect, observe and test their applications, APIs and microservices. As opposed to pattern-based approaches, Sqreen analyses in-app execution in real time to deliver more robust security without compromising performance.

Sqreen's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sqreen, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sqreen

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Application security platform for enterprises

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

We built Sqreen to protect, observe, and test modern applications by analyzing their in-app behavior in real time. Unlike pattern-based tools, Sqreen hooks inside apps, APIs, and microservices to stop attacks as they occur without impacting performance.

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

We live in San Francisco, and Sqreen is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco gives us access to both enterprise customers and security talent, which we need to build and grow Sqreen effectively.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sqreen YC application?

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