Stackshine YC Application

Winter 2022Acquired

Stackshine went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 7
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2022

Founders

Tyler DiazFounder

What Stackshine does

Stackshine is creating mission control for enterprise IT teams. We discover all the software being used across their organization and then automate workflows related to onboarding/offboarding, cost savings, and security.

Stackshine's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Stackshine, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Stackshine

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automating all IT operations

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

We built Stackshine to help enterprise IT teams get control over all the software used across their companies. Our product discovers every tool in use, then automates workflows for onboarding, offboarding, saving costs, and improving security. It's mission control for IT that replaces manual, error-prone processes with automation.

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

The founders live in Portland, OR and Providence, RI, with the company operating partly remote. After YC, we plan to remain remote but officially based in Portland for company operations.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We split time and work between Portland and Providence because Tyler is based in Portland and Sreesh in Providence. Remote work suits our geographically separated team and enables us to attract talent without relocation constraints.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Stackshine YC application?

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